Clarion 1977-01-13 Vol 52 No 13

Coalition vows to stop Job Corps at old campus
by Suzi Wells
On Dec. 21, Gov. Rudy Perpich
approved the sale of old campus
to the federal government for the
Job Training Corps. The govern-ment
now has less than 30 days to
finalize the sale.
Many neighborhood residents
are still unhappy about the sale
and are planning to file a suit
against the government. They be-lieve
they wil! win such a suit.
Safety of the Job Corps Center in
a residential neighborhood is the
pivotal question.
Many neighbors are afraid that
the Job Corps will increase the
crime rate in the neighborhood,
thus they are opposed to the
training center.
"The neighborhood residents
are being penalized," said Bob
Moder, spokesperson for the
Como-Falcon Heights Community
Coalition, Inc., a group of con-cerned
residents near old cam-pus.
Speaking of the young people
who will be admitted to the Job
Corps, Moder said, "A lot of
these kids come from back-grounds
where they have had
run-ins with the law."
Gov. Perpich has promised the
residents, however, that the cen-ter
will be closed if a crime
problem develops, although he
doubts that such a problem will
arise.
The Como-Falcon Heights
Community Coalition, Inc. is not
comforted by Perpich's assur-ance.
Even the promises of no
student parking, improved recre-ation
facilities for community use,
and the opportunity for the com-munity
to have a direct voice in
the operation of the center do not
assure the residents.
The legal suit looks optimistic
to Moder. "Either the govern-ment
will change its mind, or the
lawsuit will be successful," he
claimed.
In spite of the confidence of
Moder, Vice President of Busi-ness
Affairs Burt Wessman is
sure that the sale of the campus is
final and that the delay is now just
a waiting game with the govern-ment.
According to Wessman, the old
campus neighbors have little
chance to win a suit, especially
one against the government. "I
don't know any basis they have
for a suit," he said. "They're just
looking for technicalities."
One technicality is the possibil-ity
that the Job Corps may not be
properly zoned, since neighbor-hood
residents claim the land is
now zoned for a non-profit or-ganization,
and the Job Corps
may not be considered non-profit.
Amid all the commotion and
unsettledness of the sale, Wess-man
claims to have a peace. "We
don't have a high power group as
such," he said, "yet I'm con-vinced
that the good Lord is
leading us." He added that he
felt that things will work out well
for everyone concerned.
Bruce Olsen, editor
Holly Schmiess, news editor
Suzi Wells, production editor
Paul Olsen, copy editor
Greg Kuntz, sports editor The Clarion is published weekly
Greg Kuntz, photo editor by the students of Bethel _C ollege.
Juan Ramos, cartoonist Letters to the editor should be sent
Arlan Swanson, business manager to p.o. 91 by the Sunday before production.
THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 12 January 13, 1977
Fall housing prospects
feature two new dorms
by G.W. Smith
Unable to obtain building per-mits
because of the pending
Northwestern-Arden Hills suit,
Bethel officials now expect that
only two of five proposed new dor-mitories
will be erected by Sept. 1.
According to Director of Stu-dent
Affairs Mack Nettleton,
enough time remains to complete
the two new dorms, each housing
140 freshmen.
Bethel is scheduled to apply for
building permits shortly after Jan.
27, the day that the judge in the
Northwestern-Arden Hills suit has
chosen to deliver his decision.
The outcome of the suit will
determine whether Bethel will
receive the necessary permits to
build the new dorms.
According to Dave Lissner,
director of community relations,
there is no special reason for the
delay.
"I'm still optimistic," said Net-tleton.
"I feel there will be two new
buildings on campus in the fall."
Also included in Bethel's plans
for expansion next year is an an-nex
to the learning center across
from the p.o.'s, relocating the
campus pastor, and providing
classroom and office space.
Another big 'if' in Bethel's
future rests upon the outcome of a
suit filed by the residents near
Bethel's old campus.
According to Nettleton, Bethel
officials are uncertain whether the
suit could alter-the status of the
old campus sale.
"There are all kinds of things to
cause problems," said Nettleton.
"It's just that these things
sometimes grind along pretty
slowly," said Lissner.
He noted that Bethel has receiv-ed
no funds from the sale and has
heard nothing regarding its finali-ty.
As an alternative to Bethel's
housing worries, Nettleton said
that the college is seeking to ob-tain
100 apartments for up-perclassmen,
supplementing the
housing provided by the two new
dorms.
Adding the final topping to the
stack of uncertainties, Nettleton
related a recent rumor predicting a
construction strike to take place
in the spring.
by Shelly Nielsen
Interim is a trick!
During first semester, glowing
rumors of January ski parties, half-page
syllabi, and all-afternoon cof-fee
shop vigils circulated wildly
through Bethel buildings. Hun-dreds
of naive students rushed to
the banking window to secure
registration permits.
These same optimists dreamily
dropped them into the inter-campus-
mail slot, awaiting the day
when schedules returned granting
each Bethelite his third choice.
Not one moan of complaint
sounded.
The promise of spending twelve
hours each night hugging the elec-tric
blanket and the equally-appealing
certainty of little
homework squelched any impulse
to argue with the Registrar over
why the desired course, "The First
Epistle of John" had been replac-ed
by "Beginning Ice Hockey."
Christmas vacation over,
students returned lazily to school.
Typewriters disappeared into the.
dark recesses of closet corners.
Fischer skiis, waxed and shin-ing,
were propped instead beside
unmade beds—why make it when
you intend spending three-fourths
of the day there?—ready for fre-quent
trips to Welch Village.
Stern-faced profs dropped the
bomb Tuesday morning. They
handed eight-page syllabi to glas-sy-
eyed interimers, smiling know-ingly
at the familiar somnolence.
Oral projects, twenty to thirty
minutes in length, were summarily
assigned, and unsuspecting
pupils staggered contentedly
toward the game room.
The following day, Bethel stu-dents
slept through the lecturer's
concluding remarks.
"Have the first three texts read
by tomorrow. Don't forget to take
notes. They'll help on the unit ex-am
Thursday. Have you noticed
the study questions at the end of
each chapter?...Do them anyway.
Hope you're all making good pro-gress
on your research papers.
Don't let them go too long. You'll
need the last week to study for
that easy—ha ha—final. Any ques-tions?
See you tomorrow."
The sleeping sickness afflicting
Bethel's population is a result of
preconditioning. The lack of activi-ty
and the number of drooping
eyelids on campus are due to a
cruel misconception. Someone
circulated the laughable myth that
interim is easy!
Bethelites, awake! Failure to
shake off this strangle hold of
sloth will ultimately, heartbreak-ingly
result in your joining the
mass of Bethelites incredulously
finding glaring "NC"s on their
records.
The traditional theory of interim
is a hoax. You do have homework.
I close this instructive docu-ment
with a meaningful phrase of
my roommate's ringing in my ears:
In a sing song accent she drowsily
chants, "Wad heter du?"—the on-ly
Swedish she's been awake long
enough to learn thus far.
The sale of old campus may face legal hassles from the neighboring community.
Myth of lazy interim pace shattered
DON'T WANT' NO CORP PEOPLE 'ROUND HERE!!
Consortium responds to Toccoa flood
TOCCOA, Ga. (CCNS)—During a
mid-December visit to the campus
of Toccoa Falls Bible College,
John R. Dellenback, president of
the Christian College Consortium
and Coalition, personally express-ed
the concern of the 34 coalition
schools to Bible college officials.
The Georgia school was still
recovering, physically and other-wise,
from a flash flood Nov 6
which claimed 39 lives, almost half
of them children of faculty and
staff members, after a dam near
the campus broke during heavy
rains, flooding a portion of the
campus.
Officials of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance school ex-pressed
appreciation to Mr.
Dellenback for help given by coali-tion
colleges in money and per-sonal
services after the tragedy
occurred.
Seven colleges are known to
have responded, including four
reported in a Dec. 2 Christian Col-lege
News Service story—Hough-tion,
Houghton, N.Y.; George Fox,
Newberg, Ore.; Messiah, Gran-tham,
Pa.; and Westmont, Santa
Barbara, Calif.
The news service was advised
later that three other coalition col-leges
also expressed their con-cern
in word and deed to the Bible
college and families directly af-fected
by the tragedy.
Perhaps the most dramatic
response was that of Wheaton
College in Illinois, where $5,200
was raised in a campus radio
station-sponsored telethon, a
clothing drive was held, and 13
students spent three days on the
campus here helping in clean-up
operations.
Students at Greenville College,
Greenville, Ill. contributed $145
during an offering taken during
chapel time Dec. 8, toward the
relief of those who suffered loss in
the flood.
Mary Beth Larson, Miss Min-nesota
United Teenager 1977, is
the essay winner of the national
United Teenager Pageant, held
New Year's Eve in Washington,
D.C.
The Bethel College freshman
won a $1500 scholarship for her
essay, "My Country", which she
recited before the ballroom au-dience
of government leaders at
the Sheraton-Park Hotel.
Eighteen-year old Miss Larson,
veteran of five pageants and win-ner
of three, found the national
competition difficult. "The fifty
Gordon College in Wenham,
Mass. also took an offering on
behalf of the Georgia school, and
two days after the flood, offered to
enroll 40 Toccoa Falls College
students at Gordon without ex-pense,
except for room and board.
It was not possible for the Georgia
students to accept this offer, Gor-don
President Richard Gross said.
"The assistance rendered by
coalition colleges," Mr. Dellen-back
said, "helped materially to
alleviate the still unmet financial
needs for families of those losing
loved-ones and property."
other girls were beautiful," says
Mary Beth candidly. "And that, of
course, is what the judges look
for. Besides, each candidate was
the winner in her own state
pageant."
Though blonde Mary Beth of
Long Prairie, Minnesota, was not
one of the fifteen finalists, she
received a scholarship award
equal to that of the third runner-up.
"Now I can come back to col-lege
next year," Mary Beth smiles
contentedly.
'My Country' essay wins $1500 for
Bethel freshman in teenage pageant
editorial
Social security system--
should it be scrapped?
Recently, President Jimmy Carter signed into legislation a bill that
would increase Social Security taxes from the present 5.85 percent to
7.15 percent by the year 1987. The bill would also increase the wage base
from $16,500 to $42,000 by 1987.
In raw figures this can be computed as follows: a person who earned
$20,000 in 1977 paid $965 to Social Security, but will shell out $1,430 in
1987. For those of you who expect to make the big bucks, it would mean
that a person who earned $45,000 in 1977 paid $965 to Social Security,
but would have to pay $3,046 in 1987.
What the increase of the wage base produces is a greater group of
people from which to solicit taxes. For the person in 1977 who made
$25,000 a year, he stopped paying Social Security taxes after making
$16,500. Under the new law, he would continue paying Social Security
throughout the entire year.
It seems the deficits created by increasing benefits for retirees, while
maintaining stable tax rates and wage bases, have instituted this drastic
measure of increasing taxes for an already overburdened society.
Without new revenues, the system was expected to go bankrupt in the
early 1980's.
It must be remembered that Social Security was not originally created
as a paycheck for retirees, but rather to supplement their income during
the depression years. Not only has Social Security lost its original in-tent,
but government seems to believe that it will continue to be a domi-nant
force in the structure of today's society no matter how much it
costs.
The increase in Social Security taxes will take more money out of the
hands of consumers, which will eventually cause less spending and a
slowed economy. When consumers have less to spend, the first thing to
go will be certain luxuries that families will be forced to do without in
order to supplement the lost income. This will create higher prices by
firms who fail to sell as much as they once did, and increased unemploy-ment
by firms who will settle the lost income by firing employees. In
other words, the tax will eventually backfire in the faces of government
officials by creating more problems than they solved.
The government also intends to increase the Social Security tax on
employers, which will eventually be passed on to consumers through
higher prices and increased unemployement. When firms are first hit
with the tax increase, they will have to make some move to supplement
the income loss. This will eventually come through price increases of
goods arid services or the firing of marginal employees.
A fourth and final problem that would be created by this tax increase
is that by raising the wage base and the tax rate, it will only create a
short term resolution to a long term problem. The government hopes to
pay $1,200 per month by 1987 as a maximum benefit for a retiree and
dependent spouse. That would be $72,000 in benefits after five years of
retirement, or $144,000 after ten years. This is more than a wage earner
in 1978 making an average salary of $35,000 for 40 years could ever pay
into the system.
If the average wage earner cannot pay for these increased Social
Security benefits through his F.I.C.A. taxes, then who is going to pay for
it? The only answer could be through more increased taxes and a higher
wage base.
It must also be remembered that the $1,200 figure that is to be paid to
a retiree and a dependent in 1987 will surely be increased as the years go
by, so even more money will have to be thrown into the Social Security
drainpipe.
The only solution that remains would be to scrap the entire Social
Security system. This would reduce costs for the government by
eliminating the need to administer the Social Security system, would
reduce costs for employers and enable them to lower prices and hire
more personnel, and it would put more money into the hands of the peo-ple,
who can do whatever they want with the extra money.
If one still wonders what people will do with themselves once they
reach 65, they have a few options. One would be to save the money that
they did not pay in Social Security taxes and either invest it in real estate
and municipal bonds or place it in a savings account. For the person
making an average of $20,000 a year for forty years and takes 6 percent
out of his paycheck to place in a savings account at 5 percent interest,
he would certainly have enough money when he turns 65 on which to
retire. This would also give banks more money in which to give loans to
people who wish to build a home or buy a car, thus keeping interest rates
down.
The reduced costs to employers could also enable them to place more
money into retirement benefits for employees. This way employees
would have their income supplemented by not only their own savings,
but also the retirement benefits they will receive from their employers
after they reach 65 years of age.
Social Security is a dead end policy, and until government realizes
this, we will go on forever paying taxes for a program that costs as much
to administer as it does to pay today's aged a minimal sum at best. If
government is allowed to continue raising taxes to support dying pro-grams,
then we are sure to run into more pressing problems than exist
today.
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U.S. Congressman Donald Fraser (5th District) spoke before a chapel audience last
Tuesday about "Human Rights and American Foreign Policy." Fraser called for
American foreign policy to become more consistent among countries who have been
exploiting the rights of individuals.
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from donated Persian rug
Reading the St. Paul Pioneer
Press in his hometown in Olivia,
Minn., 83-year-old H.J. Robertson
literally had the rug pulled out
from under him. Persians, he
learned, are scouring the country
for antique Oriental carpets to sell
back to Iran and meet demand in
Germany, according to an Associ-ated
Press story carried on
November 13.
Not that Robertson was sitting
on a Persian rug. But he did have
one stored in the attic. The rug
was purchased 60 years ago by
Mrs. Robertson's mother, who
kept it as a showpiece in her farm-house
sitting room. Following her
death, the Robertsons set the rug
aside and deferred a decision as
to what to do with it. Until they
read the Sunday paper, that is.
"There are 200 to 300 Persians
on the road day and night in every
corner of the U.S. looking • for
these rugs in Oshkosh or the corn
fields in Kansas." (How about
western Minnesota, Robertson
thought.)
"Dealers cite examples of rugs
that sold for $2,500 in 1960 fet-ching
$30,000 today." And he read
how carpets 50 to 100 years old
were being purchased for national
museums and collectors.
But even if the rug were sold for
a timely sum, the Robertsons
would not be interested in having
the money for themselves. They
had found greater satisfaction by
investing in youth through Bethel
College and Seminary. So why not
use the rug for this purpose too,
Robertson thought, and let Bethel
sell it for whatever it was worth?
Several days later when
Bethel's director of deferred giv-ing,
Bud Howard, stopped in Olivia
to see the Robertsons, he received
an unexpected greeting:
"Am I glad you are here,"
Robertson said. "There's
Mavis Peterson, member of the
Student Minnesota Education As-sociation
at Bethel College, will
attend the annual national con-vention
of the Student National
Education Association (SNEA) in
Philadelphia, Pa., January 18-21.
Mavis will act as a voting dele-gate
to the official legislative
body of the association. This
governing body, representing
members from 43 states, will
adopt SNEA's goals and deter-mine
the association's programs
for 1978-79.
"The 1978 SNEA Convention
provides an opportunity for each
member to witness SNEA build a
foundation for its continuous pro-gress
in helping all members
become more effective teachers,"
explained Larry Bateman, presi-dent
of the 50,000-member organ-ization
and presiding officer at
the business meeting.
"In addition," the SNEA Presi-dent
pointed out, "this annual
event gives all participants a
chance to enrich their profes-something
we want to talk to you
about."
Howard brought the fringed Per-sian
rug—thought to be a Sarouk
and woven in shades of Burgundy,
royal blue and gold—back to
Bethel in the trunk of his car.
Together with Harvey DeVries,
vice president for public affairs,
they will explore the potential
markets for its sale.
Whether the rug makes it back
to Iran or meets a demand
elsewhere in the world, Robertson
feels satisfied that he made the
right investment. And Bethel, in
turn, is grateful not only for such a
generous benefactor but also for
the St. Paul Sunday newspaper.
WAR declared
disappointing
by freshmen
by Arlan Swanson
"I didn't think WAR was worth
$300," said freshman Dave
Briscoe, of his Writing and
Research class. Most freshmen
seem to agree with his con-clusion.
On a scale of one to ten (ten be-ing
high score), WAR averaged a
4.5 rating by the ten freshmen in-terviewed.
They didn't do enough
teaching," said Becky Dye. "They
gave assignments but didn't give
enough instruction." Becky felt
that the idea of a writing class for
freshmen was good, though she
rated the class a four.
Jon Fredrickson said, "To me it
was a review of what I already
learned in high school." He graded
WAR a three.
"I liked the class because I got
practice writing," said Patty
Ferch. "It gave me good back-ground
material." Patty thought
sional development by attending
workshops on current issues af-fecting
education, such as the re-cently
implemented 'Education
for All Handicapped Act,' multi-cultural
education and disci-pline."
Further, declared SNEA Vice
President Bryan Gurule, "The
presence of a member at the
once-a-year SNEA policy-making
meeting demonstrates his or her
dedication to the education pre-profession."
the required book, "My Name is
Asher Lev," was "profound."
"If I had to do it all over again,"
said Patty, who assigned a five
rating to the class, "I would want
Passages wins
out in survey
by Thangi Chhangte
The Student Senate conducted
a survey last fall to determine the
student body's interest in Bethel's
two publications: the Spire and
Passages. Only 373 responses
were returned.
Overall, 57 percent of the
responses preferred Passages
over Spire. The results of the
survey are posted on the Student
Senate bulletin board.
The survey was taken to deter-mine
whether Spire should be re-vived
next year. According to the
results, the yearbook will finally
be scrapped in favor of Passa-ges,
similar to this year's, avail-able
in May.
The Communications Board of
the Student Senate originally con-ducted
the survey. They will pre-sent
a budget for Passages and
the Roster to the Senate.
Al Steier, who is on the Corn-munications
Board, said he and
his colleagues were disappointed
in the number of responses they
received.
"It's the students' responsibili-ty
to respond because it's their
money we're dealing with," he ad-ded.
He said he hopes for a more
favorable response next year.
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at SNEA annual convention
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more writing practice and less
grammar."
Sherry Honeywell liked the
small group idea and said that
some guest lecturers were good.
But, rating the class a five, she
said, "I think it was a big waste, I
really do."
One student, who asked not to
be named, rated the class a five.
She said that "nobody learned
anything from the large group ses-sions."
She explained that they were
given a test at the beginning of the
course to assess what areas each
student needed help in, but they
were never told where they lacked,
and never specifically helped with
their weak areas.
"It was irrelevant to what I
needed," said another freshman.
Rating WAR a 2.5, he said, "The
subject matter wasn't practical for
me, for instance, the sixth-grade-level
section on how to use a card
catalog."
Rating the class a seven, Todd
Benson said that he was glad he
took the class. "It taught me prac-tical
writing skills," he said.
Nancy Conn, who gave the class
a resounding eight rating said, "I
thought it was really a good
course. It was worthwhile."
The lowest grade, a two, was
given by Dave Terpstra. He said
WAR "improved the one weakness
I had, punctuation."
Calling the class a waste of
$300, he said, "The purpose of
WAR should not be to fill in the in-adequacies
of high school learn-ing
but rather it should introduce
the student to what liberal arts is
all about."
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by Dan Erickson
Two new dorms will probably be the only ones located on the site near the Bremer
Field, due to the pending Northwestern-Arden Hills dispute. Originally five dorms
were to be built here. See story on page 1.
Variety moves students to, from Bethel
The rap against the Clarion is that it does not do enough investigative
reporting. I mean, there are not a lot of Woodward and Bernstein types
sneaking around. The Clarion tries to research its stories well and pre-sent
the facts clearly, but for some readers that isn't enough. In the in-terest
of giving the reader what he wants, I've given this investigative
reporting business some thought. I worked at getting an informant with
high administrative connections. After nurturing the relationship with a
possible source for several months I got a call. He had something con-fidential
to tell me, and I was to meet him the next day at one, out in the
grassy part of the circle parking lot.
He was already there when I arrived, inconspicuously dressed in a
trench coat and sunglasses.
"Things are really beginning to heat up in the administration," he said.
"Why, what do you mean," I coyly inquired, not wanting to push him
too far.
He peered at me intently over the lenses of his sunglasses. "Who do
you think is the Dean of Bethel College?"
"Why, Dean Brushaber of course."
"Wrong."
"What are you talking about," I asked. "I see his name all the time on
stationery."
"George Brushaber died in a single engine plane crash in 1975."
"You're crazy!"
"Let me ask you this: Have you ever seen Dean Brushaber?"
I was flabbergasted. Of course like everyone else I had never really
seen the Dean. I had been conditioned into believing that it was because
of his busy schedule and his reclusive manner. Now I wasn't so sure. Did
the Dean really exist, and if so, had anyone ever seen him?
"How?...Where?..." My questions began to tumble out.
"That's all I can tell you," said my secretive friend. "One last clue:
Brushaber spelled sideways is `Shabruber.' Now it is all up to you." Then
he was gone.
Now it was up to me. That phrase kept ringing in my ears. What did I
know about investigative reporting. I'm a columnist. I've never even
taken News and Feature Writing. But my duty was clear.
I worked several days on the case without result. I followed the
`Shabruber' lead by checking the cities' yellow pages, without success.
Finally I decided to go up to the Dean's office and confront them with
what I knew; hardly anything.
I strolled into the office of the Dean on Thursday. The secretary look-ed
up. "May I help you?"
I looked over at the door that said George Brushaber, College Dean. I
smirked. Who did they think they were kidding? I sat down on the edge
of the secretary's desk. She was beginning to get a little uneasy.
"What if I told you that I knew that the real Dean died in a plane crash
two and a half years ago, and that everyone's covering up to save costs
in changing the stationery, and that the Dean's job is being done by a
computer in Des Moines, Iowa whose print out code word is
`Shabruber'."
The secretary had this hurt look on her face like I'd just told a joke
that she didn't get. Now she looked scared. "Are you here to steal my
typewriter or something?" she asked.
The office door opened slightly. "Linda, would you come in here a
second."
"Yes, Dean Brushaber." She stared at me as she crossed the room,
then paused. "All I ask is that you not be here when I get back." Then
she disappeared into the suddenly real Dean's office.
When I left that office and closed the door I also closed my in-vestigative
reporting career.
by Lisa Mills
There are new bodies roaming
the Bethel halls again this inter-im.
With 1400 students here,
there are about 400 fewer stu-dents
than first semester.
The reasons for the smaller
number during interim are the
same every year: staying home to
work, staying home not to work,
not needing the interim credit,
and even going elsewhere to
school during January.
The University of Min-nesota
is recruiting
volunteers who have had
one heart attack to par-ticipate
in a national
cholesterol study.
The National Heart and
Lung Institute study is be-ing
conducted at three
medical centers, including
the University, to determine
whether lowering blood
cholesterol levels will help
prevent heart attacks. A
University physician ex-plained
that the study
needs 1,000 men and
women as participants.
They should have had one
heart attack during the last
three years, be between 30
and 60 years of age, free of
diabetes and high blood
pressure, and not be greatly
overweight. This study is in
cooperation with practicing
physicians.
For further information,
volunteers may call the
University at (612) 376-4494,
collect.
Ed. note: In its continuing
effort to better serve the
Bethel community, the
Clarion attempts to print
public service an-nouncements
of relevance
to the students. The above
news release from the U of
M is printed in Its entirety.
This year, 36 Bethel students
went to other schools for interim
on the exchange program. Bethel
sent students to Calvin, St.
Catherines, Augustana, St. Olaf,
Augsburg, Macalester, and
Greenview to name a few.
There were also 36 students
from colleges such as Westmont,
Luther, Jamestown (North Dakota)
and Taylor (Indiana) regis-tered
at Bethel.
Gretchen Robinson, in charge
of new students in the Registrar's
office, stated "Most students
come for the fun of it, and are
visiting friends—it was seldom
because of a course offering."
There are also 20 other new
students here for interim, most
from this area. Of the 56 new stu-dents,
only 20 will continue at
Former Bethel
president
dies Dec. 30
Dr. Henry C. Wingblade,
president-emeritus of Bethel Col-lege
and Seminary died December
30 in St. Paul at the age of 94.
Born on a farm near Waterville,
Kansas on December 16, 1883,
Wingblade was encouraged by his
older brother to pursue an
academic education. After gradua-tion
from Washburn College in
1910, he began teaching English
at Bethel Academy and later com-pleted
a master's program at the
University of Minnesota.
In 1941 he became the second
president of Bethel College and
Seminary, serving until 1954, for a
total of 44 years' association with
Bethel.
During his administration the
four-year liberal arts program was
inaugurated, entrance require-ments
for the seminary were up-graded
to the bachelor's degree
level, college enrollment increas-ed
from 123 to 500, the seminary
from 52 to 174, and five buildings
added to the campus.
Bethel next semester.
This is one old Bethel student
who enjoys seeing the new faces.
They seem to bring a new fresh-ness
to what otherwise could be
termed, "the middle of the year
blues."
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Wednesday-Pastor Spickel-mier,
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BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH
720 13th Avenue South
Minneapolis
338-7653
(Contact Charlie Cosgrove 636-5242)
Bus Leaves: Services:
New Campus 9:05 9:45 Bible Study
F.T. 9:10 11:00 Worship
Old Campus 9:20 7:00 Evening Challenge
This trail, now used by cross-country skiers, may become a nature or jogging path.
Coordination Plus
Interim often acts as a lull in a stormy, busy school year. We hope
this interim will be an enjoyable learning experience for .you, and
provide you with the opportunity to have more relaxation and fun.
We have taken advantage of the "lull" and informal atmosphere
interim provides to bring more casual, "just for kicks" type activities
that we hope you'll like!
One concern of ours, however, is all the new faces walking around
looking a little lonely, a little lost, and a little like "help, I need a
friend." Most of us have fewer responsibilities and a greater amount of
free time this month...so let's all make an effort to look out for each
other. It's true that in order to have a friend you have to be one, but
some of us just need a little encouragement.
Here's what's up for the next couple of weeks:
1/14 Stomp and Romp! A fun filled game night with tug of war,
mattress races and lots more.
1/17 Our annual winter picnic with cheese filled hot dogs
wrapped in bacon and lots of other good food. "The Hiding Place" will be
shown after.
1/20 Pull out your cowboy hat and come to the Mike Monroe and
Scott Warren concert. $1.50.
Should be a great month!
Cynthia and Scott
Arboretum, trails proposed for Bethel
by Steve Erickson
A proposal, which would pro-vide
for a nature trail and an ar-boretum,
is under consideration
by the Bethel Site Committee.
Devised by Gregg Johnson,
assistant professor of biology, the
proposal is divided into three sec-tions.
The first calls for posting of
signs to identify natural areas on
campus. The second section deals
with the establishment of a perma-nent
nature trail.
The last phase of the project
will be the development of an ar-boretum
(a library of plants).
Section one has already been
approved by the site committee.
The ten areas of concern are the
lake, cottonwood peat bog, cattail
swamp, prairie pothole, virgin
prairie, intermittent stream, inter-mittent
pond, arboretum,deci-duous
woods, and oak savanna.
Aside from the sign posting,
maintenance will be told of each
area's purpose..
This is to assure that the virgin
prairie will not be mowed or the
cattail swamp filled. The signs to
identify these natural areas will
cost approximately $500.
January picnic
promises fire
menu, warmth
by Debbie Bunger
In the middle of the coldest
month of the year, the fourth
annual All-You Can Eat Winter
Picnic will be held for students at
Bethel. The movie "The Hiding
Place," will be shown in the gym
at 8 p.m., after the picnic.
The picnic will be held Tues-day,
Jan. 17, at 5 p.m., at the foot
of Mt. Zion. The theme for the
picnic is: "Think Warm." To help
students along, two large bonfires
will be burning to ward off the
usual below zero temperatures.
Emphasizing "Think Warm,"
the food service has planned a
menu of hot dogs wrapped in
cheese and bacon ready to be
cooked over an open fire, hot
beans, hot German potato salad,
potato salad topped with real
frost, marshmallows to be toast-ed,
hot cider and hot chocolate.
Popularity of the picnic has in-creased
since the first year.
About 24 people attended the first
picnic, 28 people attended the
Johnson said, "I'm not as con-cerned
about the nature trail; my
main input was to preserve these
native areas. Bethel is located on
DuPont's old land. It was used for
storing dynamite. Most of the
other land in this area was used
for farming or grazing. Much of
Bethel's land has been un-disturbed."
Sections two and three are still
being examined by the site com-mittee.
It seems to be favoring a
nature trail instead of a combined
jogging-nature trail.
Although they overlap in areas,
second and 300 attended last
year's. A minimum of 300 people
are expected this year.
Concerning the weather,
Wayne Erickson, co-director of
the food service, stated, "It's
beautiful! Traditionally the wea-ther
has always been nice on the
evening of the picnic." With a
smile, he added, "It has never
been below 20 degrees below
zero."
A sign-up sheet will be posted
before the picnic to get an
estimate of the number of people
planning to attend the picnic. The
picnic is sponsored by the food
service and Campus Coordina-tor's
office.
the two trails run different
courses.
The arboretum would be located
between the college and the
seminary along highway 51.
Expenses in establishing a per-manent
nature trail and arboretum
are expected to run
$12,700-$19,700, depending on
whether wood chips or asphalt are
used.
Other expenses will be
transplanting and labeling trees,
and for the research and printing
of the pamphlet.
Funding for the nature trail-arboretum
might come from a
community or private grant. The
Student Senate has rejected a pro-posal
that would provide $500 for
the project.
The nature trail and arboretum
would probably be used more by
people in the surrounding areas
than by Bethel students. A pam-phlet
would be printed and dis-tributed
to the neighboring com-munity.
Tours could also be scheduled
through public relations. These
tours will provide exposure of the
Bethel campus to high school
students.
Jon Berry, a member of both the
site committee and Student
Senate thinks a running trail is
more important. "I agree that
we're very lucky with what we have
and we should share, but the opi-nion
that I get is that most
students would much rather see a
running trail."
He continued, "After a couple of
times, you've seen everything in a
nature trail. A jogging trail could
be used more often. People are
sick of running on the roads."
But regardless of what kind of
trail is constructed, Johnson
urges conservation of natural
areas. "If the school - decides to
put a parking lot or a stadium or
something else in, I hope they will
consider alternative places and
avoid the native areas.," he said.
History buff
explores early
coffee shops
by Teferi Fufa
Suppose you are passing the
coffee-shop on your way to the
library and, "just for the fun of it",
you decide to compare the
number of people in each place.
Would you find more people in
the library or in the coffee shop?
You have five years worth of
Spire before you. As you skim
them looking for some familiar
faces, you see pictures of
students sleeping, at least one in
every copy!
Where would you say the photo-grapher
went for his candid shots?
Of course the answer is, in both
cases, the library! After all, we go
to the coffee shop to stay awake
and back to the library to study.
It wasn't always that way,
though. There is more to the
coffee shop tradition than just
keeping people awake.
It is not a mere alternative to the
uneasy, silent and intellectual at-mosphere
of the Learning Re-source
Center (LRC), either. His-torically
it is referred to as a cof-fee
house, a coffee room, or a
cafe, and more recently, especially
on college campuses, coffee shop
or student center is the name.
Call it what you will, it is the
place to which one gravitates for a
cup of coffee.
Coffee house tradition comes to
us from Europe where its popu-larity
was established as early as
the beginning of the 17th century.
In those days common
customers of the coffee houses
were historians, poets, orators, ar-tists
and actors. There was
nothing like the 15-minute coffee
break that we know today, as we
relax our muscles and refresh our
minds before resuming our work.
No, for those people it was an
informal scholastic venture; they
gathered for lively discussions,
continued on page 6
Page 5
Bethelites socialize in favorite spot, descendants of early European coffeehouse patrons.
Apartheid, black plight
studied at local theatre
Bohne in world premier
by Holly Schmiess
"Sizwe Banzi is Dead," and
"The Island," two anti-apartheid
plays now on at Theatre in the
Round, together run a marathon
length of three and one quarter
hours. Due to circumstances be-yond
my better judgment, I could
stay for only "Sizwe...."
The play takes place in South
Africa, and examines the modern
day traumas of being a black man
in a white society. Styles, a man
with a resilient spirit, opens his
own photography studio rather
than rot in the work-a-day grind
of the white man's assembly line.
He tells his audience all about
that transition in an engaging
monologue that makes you laugh,
sigh, and understand.
Warren C. Bowles, playing
Styles, acted too arduously,
though, in this part', and made us
feel obligated to respond.
Into the photographer's studio
walks a man who has his own
story, Sizwe Banzi. He too is a
black man trying to start a new
life, in another South African city.
Seeking the advice of his
friend, Buntu (also played by
Bowles), Sizwe learns the futility
of trying to legally revise the
passbook to which his life is
bound. They find a dead man in
an alley and, persuaded by Bun-tu,
the realist, Sizwe swaps pass-books.
To put food on the table for his
family, Sizwe gives up his hon-ored
tribal name and heritage for
those of a dead man. The story
comes full circle as Sizwe goes to
the photography studio to have a
photo of his 'new' self taken to
send to his wife.
The script, written by two black
and one white South African,
could have had several demises:
tedious cynicism, esoteric jargon,
extremely provincial appeal, or
heavy-handed statement. These
were beautifully avoided.
Statement and artistic expres-sion
were mutually enhanced.
The characters were not merely
illustrative puppets.
I wish Buntu and Styles had
been played by two different ac-tors.
Bowles did an admirable job
of differentiating the characters,
but that became the predominant
thought in my mind—that he was
doing a good job. Both characters
were fully-developed and treated
quite independently in the story
and script. The double-casting
was unwarranted and distracting
when the play was so sparsely
populated to begin with.
With no required props or set,
long monologue sequences, and
unique time-lapse progression,
the directing challenge was a big
one. Philip Blackwell used light-ing,
particularly spots, to achieve
the intertwining effect of three
men's lives, and parenthetical
events within a larger story.
"Sizwe Banzi is Dead" not only
reveals the plight of the South
African black, but gives names
and faces to everyone restricted
to a man-made system. Empathy
was uniquely expressed (quite
verbally at times), especially by
the black members of the opening
night audience.
I'd like to go back and see "The
Island." Let that speak for itself.
continued from page 5
talked, listened, debated, and, of
course, drank coffee.
Those early London coffee
houses became known as "Penny
Universities".
The popularity of the coffee
house and its impact on socio-political
life of the people is not
limited to England.
In France, coffee houses were
places of origin for revolutionary
thoughts, some of which climaxed
in the execution of the "French
Revolution".
Familiar names like Voltaire,
Rousseau, Fontenelle, Victor
Hugo and many other noted
French scholars appear on the list
of those who frequented coffee
houses.
Of course the rulers felt uneasy
about this tradition, and according
to the literature, Frederick William
I of Prussia, Charles II of England,
and Louise XIV of France did their
best, individually, to suppress the
coffee house.
Each of these kings at one time
in his reign outlawed the coffee
house and subjected the offender
to severe penalties.
But the laws were very shortliv-ed
and unsuccessful since they
only accomplished the division of
the population into two
categories: law enforcers and law
breakers!
The tradition which had a
tremendous impact on European
social and political life can be con-tinued
here at Bethel in the coffee
shop.
Today when concerns about
environment and the various
aspects of world problems provide
us with vital topics for discussion,
there is no reason why we should
not make use of this great school
of conversation.
So, don't be surprised if you
find the coffee shop busier than
you expected it to be. It may not
be a "Penny University" but it
does offer conversation, coffee by
the cup and a refill—all for only fif-teen
cents!
by Marlene Triggs
A Bethel student performing in
a theatre production outside of
Bethel is not unusual. But when
the production is a world premier,
that is an event.
Bruce Bohne, a senior theatre
major, will be performing in a
musical based on George Bernard
Shaw's play, "The Devil's Dis-ciple,"
at the Chimera Theatre.
The performance dates are Jan.
27-March 5.
"The Devil's Disciple" is a
play that takes place in a Puritan
community in America. The
young man who is called the
devil's disciple warrants this title
because of such un-Puritan ac-tions
as wrestling on Sunday.
When the British army occu-pies
the city, the devil's disciple's
identity is mistaken for that of the
Puritan minister. He is arrested
and destined to be hung, as an
example to the rest of the commu-nity.
This situation and the capers
THESPIANS
Single free tickets will be
available occasionally to
perceptive students, pre-ferably
with theatre experi-ence,
who will review plays
for THE CLARION. Stimu-lating
for you, beneficial for
us and our readers. If
you're interested in critiqu-ing
some Twin Cities pro-ductions
between now and
May, let me know soon.
Thanks.
Holly Schmiess
P.O. 1556
Phone 6214
that follow supply perfect materi-al
for the musical.
Bruce's character is a sergeant
of the British army. It is a part that
he is enjoying thoroughly. Bruce
describes the sergeant as a "gruf-fy,
lovable Cockney. He is kind of a
caricature, but at the same time he
is real."
"The thing I am most excited
about is the encouragement I get
from the writer and the director,"
said Bohne. "It makes me want to
work and give to them. Because
of this, I am really being
stretched as an actor. I am
learning that I have to give them
everything and the director will
hold me back if he thinks I am
giving too much."
The exciting thing is that the
director, Jack Edleman, and the
rewriter, Warren Frost, have not
been holding him back. Instead,
they are so pleased with the
character that Bruce is creating
that they have added a scene
featuring him.
"The director is just super,"
said Bruce. "He is alive, creative,
and bursting with energy."
"Everybody in the cast is get-ting
to be good friends," related
Bohne. "There is a spirit of fun in
every rehearsal. It is exhausting
work but it is wonderful."
"This is a special world pre-mier,"
Bruce explains, "If it is
good and the idea is solid, this
could turn out to be a `My Fair
Lady' type of thing."
There is no doubt in Bruce's
mind about the success of the
show. "I'm sure it is going to be a
success. In fact, I am convinced of
it."
Events Calendar
January 13, Friday
Women's basketball with St. Mary's, home, 6:30 p.m.
January 14, Saturday
All-day wrestling invitational at Concordia
Men's basketball with St. John's, away, 7:30 p.m.
Stomp and Romp (Game night), gym, 8 p.m.
January 16, Monday
Auditions for "All My Sons," "You're a Good Man...," FA 108,
FA 312, 7 p.m.
January 17, Tuesday
Winter Picnic, 5 p.m., "The Hiding Place," gym, 8 p.m.
Auditions for "All My Sons," "You're a Good Man...," FA 108,
FA 312, 7 p.m.
Women's basketball with Concordia, away, 7 p.m.
January 18, Wednesday
Men's basketball with Augsburg, away, 6:30 p.m.
**The Events Calendar will be a regular feature of THE
CLARION from now on. If your organization wants to post
notice of an activity, submit to P.O. 91 by 6 p.m. the Sunday
before publication.
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Page 6
9. Dugout:
a. where the prisoner
dug to escape
b. where the player
sleeps
c. a place to store
baseball players
d. what the dentist did
to your cavity
10. Ball diamond:
a. rounded jewel in a
wedding ring
b. field that baseball is
played on
c. a new game from
Milton Bradley
d. a ball that costs a
dime in Jersey
11. Change on the fly:
a. switch players while
play continues on
the ice
b. you are late for school
and you dress in
the car
c. you have clothes to
fit a fly
d. assorted coins taped
to a zipper
Curt Oslin looks for the open man in Wednesday's game
against St. Olaf.
Shirley Erickson is more
than a special student
At an age when some women
might be baking cookies for their
grandchildren away at college,
Mrs. Shirley Erickson is eating
them with her classmates in the
dorm.
Continuing her education at
Bethel is the fulfillment of a dream
for this vigorous widow who
recently was administrator at the
Park Point Manor Nursing Home in
Duluth. That dream started 25
years ago when she first heard
about Bethel through her church,
and continued as she encouraged
Sunday School youth to apply for
admission.
"You're always pushing Bethel
for others," a friend commented,
"have you ever thought of going
there yourself?" After her husband
died unexpectedly a year ago, Mrs.
Erickson thought, why not?
This fall she enrolled as a
special student, working toward a
degree to add to her previous R.N.
program, and decided to live in Bo-dien
Residence with 150 other col-legians.
"I wanted to be in the middle of
everything," she commented. "I
didn't want to be isolated."
Out of such motivation she
joins the college crowd in powder
puff football, late-nighters at
Country Kitchen or the Rosedale
roller rink, and singing with the
Women's Ensemble.
She even mustered up enough
courage to ask a professor to Nik
Dag.
Eating with the students in the
campus dining hall is another
pastime. "You could say I'm tak-ing
a sabbatical leave from house-work,"
she quips, "but actually I'm
too lazy to fix my own meals while
going to school."
As far as relations with her
classmates and teachers are con-cerned,
Mrs. Erickson hasn't
received any preferential treat-ment.
"When we heard that you were
coming to live in the dorm," one of
the residents told her, "we
thought you would be a stodgy old
bookworm. But we've found that
you're just one of us."
When it comes to grading, Mrs .
Aye yust got a letter from my
brother in der old country. Aye can
keep it only two days longer as it
say "return in five days." Yimminy
whiz he has made it so close to the
paper that aye can read it hardly.
Dear broder David,
De reason aye didn't rite sooner
is because ve moved from vere ve
ver to ver ve are now. Aye schol
tell you the sad news. Your Uncle
Obert, who you loved so good is
dead. He died very sudden after
being sick about six months. Hope
this letter finds you the same. Ve
did not know the cause for his
death but he yust lay down and der
vind leaked out of him.
Your Aunt Pauline is been dead
too. She was mopping floor ven
she slipped and cracked her bean
on the floor. De doctor giv up all
Erickson lamented that she got a
D in a recent quiz on Romans.
"It's a terrible ego blow for me
not to get an A," she said. "After
that first test, I went over to the
school nurse and cried a bit. But
she poured me a cup of hot tea
and that helped. Later some
beautiful person put a note in my
post office box with some verses
of encouragement." She has since
used these to cheer others when
they get down.
While she doesn't yet know the
purpose of her college experience,
Mrs. Erickson confidently trusts
her future with God. "Up until a
few weeks ago I seemed to be drif-ting
without any particular goal.
But now I feel that being in college
is definitely a part of God's plan
for my life and there's a rudder to
my sailboat after all!"
by Jon Fredrickson
Some of you sports fans
may have gone to games
where the guy next to you is
using words that you have
never heard before.
For people who might
want to find out what this
guy was saying, the follow-ing
sports quiz might be of
some help.
1. Dribble:
a. the stuff that rolls
down your chin
b. bouncing a ball
c. a slow rain
d. all of the above
2. Jock:
a. the French guy who
lives downstairs
b. man of all sports
c. a monkey
d. rider of a horse in
in a race
3. Check:
a. smashing the oppos-sing
player into the
boards
b. what you use to bribe
the ref with
c. wheat, rice, or corn
hope yen she died.
Our old friend John Jacobson
was held up and killed for his
money. He was lucky as he left all
his money home so all he lost was
his life.
Ole Stenhagen fell in de river
and vas drowned. Same thing hap-pened
to him last summer.
Ve all got the mumps and are
having a svell time.
Aye haf no more to say, aye will
close. If you don't get this letter
write and tell me at once and aye
vill send you anoder one.
P.S. Aye was going to send you
that five dollars aye owe you, but
aye had already sealed up this let-ter
and mailed it before I thot of
the $5.
Your loving broder,
cereal
d. red marks on a term
paper
4. Score:
a. what all athletes wish
they could do
b. point total at the end
of the game
c. twenty
5. Backboard:
a. a splint tied to
your back
b. what the basketball
hoop hangs from
c. flip-side of the front
d. how you felt in the
last row of class
yesterday
6. Ball:
a. a dance up the street
b. what the batter tries
to hit
c. to cry
d. hairless head
7. Out of bounds:
a. women's dorm for men
b. men's dorm for women
c. outside of the court
d. a disco for Bethel
students
e. no more detergent
8. Misconduct penalty:
a. being sent to your
room, with no dinner
by your R.A.
b. a fine assessed for
being in the wrong
sex's room
c. no kiss after Nik Dag
d. what a player in
hockey gets
e. your face gets slapped
continued from page 8
periods but couldn't put The puck
in."
The hockey club is not a varsity
team. It raises its own funds.
The Student Senate contributed
$500 to the club and a number of
businessmen have given money.
Players have also sold buttons to
raise funds.
High points in the season will
be upcoming games against the
Augsburg and Gustavus junior var-sities.
The season ends in early
March.
Pete's letter to his brother
Sports quiz to examine athletic term knowledge
Page 7
I
Gail Anderson, Cindy Martin and Lori Hallquist (left to
right) look on as one Bethel cager attempts to score.
First MIAC win for Bethel
in thriller at Concordia
"Sugar Ray" Miller launches a jumper against St. Olaf
by Greg Kuntz
The Bethel men's basketball
team evened their record at 1-1 in
the M.I.A.C. by edging Concor-dia
(Moorhead) 63-62 last Satur-day
night. Ray Miller's basket
with :18 left proved to be the win-ning
margin for the Royals when
Concordia's Craig Flaagen, who
scored 19 points in the game,
failed on a shot from the corner as
time ran out.
Bethel led by six . at the half,
and by 12 at one time. Concordia
had the lead only once, when they
led by a point with about a minute
to play.
Defensively, the Royals were
excellent despite four fouls each
on Scott Wilson, Miller and Curt
Oslin. The Royals outrebounded
Concordia, with Wilson control-ling
the boards often. Todd
Chapman fouled out of the game
in the second half.
Bethel committed only 11 turn-overs
and hit 15 of 20 free throws
compared to 12 of 23 by the hosts.
"They didn't expect anything
from us. We sneaked up on them
and our defense was excellent,"
said Coach Jim Bragg.
Sophomore Dave Blanchard,
who now has a 18.5 point per
game average, scored 23 against
Concordia.
While almost everyone was
racking their brains during finals
week, the Royals racked up two
non-conference victories. Their
first was at Concordia (St. Paul),
which they won 79-65, and then a
nip-and-tuck 71-68 win over River
Falls at home.
Blanchard had his two highest
scoring performances so far with
27 against Concordia and 24
against River Falls. The Royals
converted 21 of 26 free throws in
the River Falls game.
The Royals outlasted a bigger
and more physical River Falls
team and poor officiating. Bethel
made a transition against a
matched zone which forced turn-overs
and key steals by Curt Oslin
and Tom Koenigsberg. This pro-vided
some quick baskets in the
last two minutes of the game for a
dramatic finish.
"Our offense played patient
and Blanchard got the good
shots," said Bragg.
The Royals played an atypical
game and lost their first M.I.A.C.
performance to Gustavus Adol-phus
83-56 last week. Scott Wil-son
scored 18 points in the losing
effort.
"Almost everyone was off. Our
heads weren't there," explained
Bragg. "We're an exciting team
and tough for anyone in the
league when we're all together on
a given night."
The Royals hit the road again
tomorrow night for M.I.A.C. ac-tion
when they face St. John's at
7:30 p.m. and face Hamline next
Wednesday night at 7:30. They
return home against Augsburg at
7:30 p.m. next Friday and St.
Mary's on Jan. 28th.
Women's basketball team uses new
defense to rout Gusties, Parkside
by Carol Madison
Some extra practice, healed in-juries
and a new defense has given
the Bethel women's basketball
team a good start after the Christ-mas
break.
Bethel came off five extra days
of practice before classes to
soundly defeat Gustavus 50-33
and the University of Wisconsin-
Parkside 51-35.
The use of a new 1-3-1 defense
was the key to the win over Gus-tavus.
"We're excited to try the new
defense at home," said Coach
Kathy Nevins. "It's one of the bags
by Steve Erickson
The Bethel hockey club split
two games last weekend, losing to
Rochester 11-6 Friday, before
trouncing the Iowa State junior
varsity 12-1 Saturday night.
The loss to Rochester was only
the team's second all season
against five wins.
"It was a down night," said Dr.
Thomas Correll, the club's faculty
representative. "We didn't play a
very together game Friday."
Scoring goals for Bethel were
Fred Hage with two, and John
Selvog, Kim Tramm, Mark Barton,
and Greg Sutton with one apiece.
Hage and Tramm are newcomers
who were added to the team at the
beginning of interim. Bethel out-shot
Rochester 32-29.
Led by Hage's three goals,
Bethel turned things around and
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of tricks we'll use when we play
teams Bethel has lost to in the
past."
Everyone played and con-tributed
in the Gustavus game,
which was the best Bethel has
played this year. Turnovers were
fewer than any other game, and a
53 percent field goal shooting
percentage was a big factor in the
win.
Cindy Ramm was high scorer
with 16 points.
The University of Wisconsin-
Parkside game saw some dis-jointed
play, but Bethel won with
dominating inside play. Bethel had
smothered a weak Iowa State
team Saturday. It was never close,
with the Royals taking control
from the outset.
Bethel outshot the visiting
Cyclones 46-11. Bethel goalies
George Fraser and Bob Aldrich
faced few serious scoring threats.
Bethel started the blitz with
three goals in less than a minute
early in the first period.
At three minutes, Mike Kiel flip-ped
in a well-placed shot. Less
than one-half minute later, Sutton
carried the puck up ice and fired it
in the short side to make 2-0.
Selvog scored a shorthanded goal
28 seconds later after putting a
nice move on the goalie.
Tom Correll was credited with
the next score when his centering
pass bounced off an Iowa State
player into the net. At 14 minutes,
Correll was tripped as he skated in
more height, and consequently
was able to block out well on the
boards.
Cindy Ramm was again high
scorer with 17 points, and Joann
Griffin and Cheryl Luiken shared
rebounding honors with 10 each.
Although hampered by injuries
at the start of the season, the
team is now close to full strength.
According to Coach Nevins, the
team has really improved with
each game.
"We've got a long way to go, but
we keep getting better," she said.
The Royals now have a 5-1
season record.
Wrestling
results
by Betty Logan
The Bethel wrestling team
participated in a takedown
tournament at St. John's
University last Saturday,
placing seventh out of nine
teams.
Highlighting the Bethel
showing was heavyweight
Gary Peterson who tied for
second place, scoring 15
takedowns in the tourna-ment.
Sophomore Lonnie
Holmgren won three mat-ches.
The next wrestling event
will be the North Country In-vitational
at Concordia-
Moorhead tomorrow, Jan.
14.
alone on goal. He was awarded a
penalty shot and converted it.
Goals by Hage and Tramm
finished the first period scoring
and made it 7-0.
An Iowa State winger ruined
Bethel's shutout on a blast into
the lower left corner early in the
second period. For Bethel, Greg
Correll stuffed in a rebound and
Sutton scored from the right point
to make it 9-1.
Tramm knocked in a rebound
three minutes into the third period
to put Bethel into double figures.
Hage completed the scoring with
two more goals, including a
tremendous blast from 20 feet out.
During the Christmas holidays,
Bethel played in a tournament at
Hibbing. Bethel beat Rochester in
the first game 2-1. In the final, Hib-bing,
the defending U.S. Nationals
champion overcame the Royals
4-0.
Dr. Correll said, "The guys were
feeling good after the game. We
shut them out the first and third
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Coalition vows to stop Job Corps at old campus
by Suzi Wells
On Dec. 21, Gov. Rudy Perpich
approved the sale of old campus
to the federal government for the
Job Training Corps. The govern-ment
now has less than 30 days to
finalize the sale.
Many neighborhood residents
are still unhappy about the sale
and are planning to file a suit
against the government. They be-lieve
they wil! win such a suit.
Safety of the Job Corps Center in
a residential neighborhood is the
pivotal question.
Many neighbors are afraid that
the Job Corps will increase the
crime rate in the neighborhood,
thus they are opposed to the
training center.
"The neighborhood residents
are being penalized," said Bob
Moder, spokesperson for the
Como-Falcon Heights Community
Coalition, Inc., a group of con-cerned
residents near old cam-pus.
Speaking of the young people
who will be admitted to the Job
Corps, Moder said, "A lot of
these kids come from back-grounds
where they have had
run-ins with the law."
Gov. Perpich has promised the
residents, however, that the cen-ter
will be closed if a crime
problem develops, although he
doubts that such a problem will
arise.
The Como-Falcon Heights
Community Coalition, Inc. is not
comforted by Perpich's assur-ance.
Even the promises of no
student parking, improved recre-ation
facilities for community use,
and the opportunity for the com-munity
to have a direct voice in
the operation of the center do not
assure the residents.
The legal suit looks optimistic
to Moder. "Either the govern-ment
will change its mind, or the
lawsuit will be successful," he
claimed.
In spite of the confidence of
Moder, Vice President of Busi-ness
Affairs Burt Wessman is
sure that the sale of the campus is
final and that the delay is now just
a waiting game with the govern-ment.
According to Wessman, the old
campus neighbors have little
chance to win a suit, especially
one against the government. "I
don't know any basis they have
for a suit," he said. "They're just
looking for technicalities."
One technicality is the possibil-ity
that the Job Corps may not be
properly zoned, since neighbor-hood
residents claim the land is
now zoned for a non-profit or-ganization,
and the Job Corps
may not be considered non-profit.
Amid all the commotion and
unsettledness of the sale, Wess-man
claims to have a peace. "We
don't have a high power group as
such," he said, "yet I'm con-vinced
that the good Lord is
leading us." He added that he
felt that things will work out well
for everyone concerned.
Bruce Olsen, editor
Holly Schmiess, news editor
Suzi Wells, production editor
Paul Olsen, copy editor
Greg Kuntz, sports editor The Clarion is published weekly
Greg Kuntz, photo editor by the students of Bethel _C ollege.
Juan Ramos, cartoonist Letters to the editor should be sent
Arlan Swanson, business manager to p.o. 91 by the Sunday before production.
THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 12 January 13, 1977
Fall housing prospects
feature two new dorms
by G.W. Smith
Unable to obtain building per-mits
because of the pending
Northwestern-Arden Hills suit,
Bethel officials now expect that
only two of five proposed new dor-mitories
will be erected by Sept. 1.
According to Director of Stu-dent
Affairs Mack Nettleton,
enough time remains to complete
the two new dorms, each housing
140 freshmen.
Bethel is scheduled to apply for
building permits shortly after Jan.
27, the day that the judge in the
Northwestern-Arden Hills suit has
chosen to deliver his decision.
The outcome of the suit will
determine whether Bethel will
receive the necessary permits to
build the new dorms.
According to Dave Lissner,
director of community relations,
there is no special reason for the
delay.
"I'm still optimistic," said Net-tleton.
"I feel there will be two new
buildings on campus in the fall."
Also included in Bethel's plans
for expansion next year is an an-nex
to the learning center across
from the p.o.'s, relocating the
campus pastor, and providing
classroom and office space.
Another big 'if' in Bethel's
future rests upon the outcome of a
suit filed by the residents near
Bethel's old campus.
According to Nettleton, Bethel
officials are uncertain whether the
suit could alter-the status of the
old campus sale.
"There are all kinds of things to
cause problems," said Nettleton.
"It's just that these things
sometimes grind along pretty
slowly," said Lissner.
He noted that Bethel has receiv-ed
no funds from the sale and has
heard nothing regarding its finali-ty.
As an alternative to Bethel's
housing worries, Nettleton said
that the college is seeking to ob-tain
100 apartments for up-perclassmen,
supplementing the
housing provided by the two new
dorms.
Adding the final topping to the
stack of uncertainties, Nettleton
related a recent rumor predicting a
construction strike to take place
in the spring.
by Shelly Nielsen
Interim is a trick!
During first semester, glowing
rumors of January ski parties, half-page
syllabi, and all-afternoon cof-fee
shop vigils circulated wildly
through Bethel buildings. Hun-dreds
of naive students rushed to
the banking window to secure
registration permits.
These same optimists dreamily
dropped them into the inter-campus-
mail slot, awaiting the day
when schedules returned granting
each Bethelite his third choice.
Not one moan of complaint
sounded.
The promise of spending twelve
hours each night hugging the elec-tric
blanket and the equally-appealing
certainty of little
homework squelched any impulse
to argue with the Registrar over
why the desired course, "The First
Epistle of John" had been replac-ed
by "Beginning Ice Hockey."
Christmas vacation over,
students returned lazily to school.
Typewriters disappeared into the.
dark recesses of closet corners.
Fischer skiis, waxed and shin-ing,
were propped instead beside
unmade beds—why make it when
you intend spending three-fourths
of the day there?—ready for fre-quent
trips to Welch Village.
Stern-faced profs dropped the
bomb Tuesday morning. They
handed eight-page syllabi to glas-sy-
eyed interimers, smiling know-ingly
at the familiar somnolence.
Oral projects, twenty to thirty
minutes in length, were summarily
assigned, and unsuspecting
pupils staggered contentedly
toward the game room.
The following day, Bethel stu-dents
slept through the lecturer's
concluding remarks.
"Have the first three texts read
by tomorrow. Don't forget to take
notes. They'll help on the unit ex-am
Thursday. Have you noticed
the study questions at the end of
each chapter?...Do them anyway.
Hope you're all making good pro-gress
on your research papers.
Don't let them go too long. You'll
need the last week to study for
that easy—ha ha—final. Any ques-tions?
See you tomorrow."
The sleeping sickness afflicting
Bethel's population is a result of
preconditioning. The lack of activi-ty
and the number of drooping
eyelids on campus are due to a
cruel misconception. Someone
circulated the laughable myth that
interim is easy!
Bethelites, awake! Failure to
shake off this strangle hold of
sloth will ultimately, heartbreak-ingly
result in your joining the
mass of Bethelites incredulously
finding glaring "NC"s on their
records.
The traditional theory of interim
is a hoax. You do have homework.
I close this instructive docu-ment
with a meaningful phrase of
my roommate's ringing in my ears:
In a sing song accent she drowsily
chants, "Wad heter du?"—the on-ly
Swedish she's been awake long
enough to learn thus far.
The sale of old campus may face legal hassles from the neighboring community.
Myth of lazy interim pace shattered
DON'T WANT' NO CORP PEOPLE 'ROUND HERE!!
Consortium responds to Toccoa flood
TOCCOA, Ga. (CCNS)—During a
mid-December visit to the campus
of Toccoa Falls Bible College,
John R. Dellenback, president of
the Christian College Consortium
and Coalition, personally express-ed
the concern of the 34 coalition
schools to Bible college officials.
The Georgia school was still
recovering, physically and other-wise,
from a flash flood Nov 6
which claimed 39 lives, almost half
of them children of faculty and
staff members, after a dam near
the campus broke during heavy
rains, flooding a portion of the
campus.
Officials of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance school ex-pressed
appreciation to Mr.
Dellenback for help given by coali-tion
colleges in money and per-sonal
services after the tragedy
occurred.
Seven colleges are known to
have responded, including four
reported in a Dec. 2 Christian Col-lege
News Service story—Hough-tion,
Houghton, N.Y.; George Fox,
Newberg, Ore.; Messiah, Gran-tham,
Pa.; and Westmont, Santa
Barbara, Calif.
The news service was advised
later that three other coalition col-leges
also expressed their con-cern
in word and deed to the Bible
college and families directly af-fected
by the tragedy.
Perhaps the most dramatic
response was that of Wheaton
College in Illinois, where $5,200
was raised in a campus radio
station-sponsored telethon, a
clothing drive was held, and 13
students spent three days on the
campus here helping in clean-up
operations.
Students at Greenville College,
Greenville, Ill. contributed $145
during an offering taken during
chapel time Dec. 8, toward the
relief of those who suffered loss in
the flood.
Mary Beth Larson, Miss Min-nesota
United Teenager 1977, is
the essay winner of the national
United Teenager Pageant, held
New Year's Eve in Washington,
D.C.
The Bethel College freshman
won a $1500 scholarship for her
essay, "My Country", which she
recited before the ballroom au-dience
of government leaders at
the Sheraton-Park Hotel.
Eighteen-year old Miss Larson,
veteran of five pageants and win-ner
of three, found the national
competition difficult. "The fifty
Gordon College in Wenham,
Mass. also took an offering on
behalf of the Georgia school, and
two days after the flood, offered to
enroll 40 Toccoa Falls College
students at Gordon without ex-pense,
except for room and board.
It was not possible for the Georgia
students to accept this offer, Gor-don
President Richard Gross said.
"The assistance rendered by
coalition colleges," Mr. Dellen-back
said, "helped materially to
alleviate the still unmet financial
needs for families of those losing
loved-ones and property."
other girls were beautiful," says
Mary Beth candidly. "And that, of
course, is what the judges look
for. Besides, each candidate was
the winner in her own state
pageant."
Though blonde Mary Beth of
Long Prairie, Minnesota, was not
one of the fifteen finalists, she
received a scholarship award
equal to that of the third runner-up.
"Now I can come back to col-lege
next year," Mary Beth smiles
contentedly.
'My Country' essay wins $1500 for
Bethel freshman in teenage pageant
editorial
Social security system--
should it be scrapped?
Recently, President Jimmy Carter signed into legislation a bill that
would increase Social Security taxes from the present 5.85 percent to
7.15 percent by the year 1987. The bill would also increase the wage base
from $16,500 to $42,000 by 1987.
In raw figures this can be computed as follows: a person who earned
$20,000 in 1977 paid $965 to Social Security, but will shell out $1,430 in
1987. For those of you who expect to make the big bucks, it would mean
that a person who earned $45,000 in 1977 paid $965 to Social Security,
but would have to pay $3,046 in 1987.
What the increase of the wage base produces is a greater group of
people from which to solicit taxes. For the person in 1977 who made
$25,000 a year, he stopped paying Social Security taxes after making
$16,500. Under the new law, he would continue paying Social Security
throughout the entire year.
It seems the deficits created by increasing benefits for retirees, while
maintaining stable tax rates and wage bases, have instituted this drastic
measure of increasing taxes for an already overburdened society.
Without new revenues, the system was expected to go bankrupt in the
early 1980's.
It must be remembered that Social Security was not originally created
as a paycheck for retirees, but rather to supplement their income during
the depression years. Not only has Social Security lost its original in-tent,
but government seems to believe that it will continue to be a domi-nant
force in the structure of today's society no matter how much it
costs.
The increase in Social Security taxes will take more money out of the
hands of consumers, which will eventually cause less spending and a
slowed economy. When consumers have less to spend, the first thing to
go will be certain luxuries that families will be forced to do without in
order to supplement the lost income. This will create higher prices by
firms who fail to sell as much as they once did, and increased unemploy-ment
by firms who will settle the lost income by firing employees. In
other words, the tax will eventually backfire in the faces of government
officials by creating more problems than they solved.
The government also intends to increase the Social Security tax on
employers, which will eventually be passed on to consumers through
higher prices and increased unemployement. When firms are first hit
with the tax increase, they will have to make some move to supplement
the income loss. This will eventually come through price increases of
goods arid services or the firing of marginal employees.
A fourth and final problem that would be created by this tax increase
is that by raising the wage base and the tax rate, it will only create a
short term resolution to a long term problem. The government hopes to
pay $1,200 per month by 1987 as a maximum benefit for a retiree and
dependent spouse. That would be $72,000 in benefits after five years of
retirement, or $144,000 after ten years. This is more than a wage earner
in 1978 making an average salary of $35,000 for 40 years could ever pay
into the system.
If the average wage earner cannot pay for these increased Social
Security benefits through his F.I.C.A. taxes, then who is going to pay for
it? The only answer could be through more increased taxes and a higher
wage base.
It must also be remembered that the $1,200 figure that is to be paid to
a retiree and a dependent in 1987 will surely be increased as the years go
by, so even more money will have to be thrown into the Social Security
drainpipe.
The only solution that remains would be to scrap the entire Social
Security system. This would reduce costs for the government by
eliminating the need to administer the Social Security system, would
reduce costs for employers and enable them to lower prices and hire
more personnel, and it would put more money into the hands of the peo-ple,
who can do whatever they want with the extra money.
If one still wonders what people will do with themselves once they
reach 65, they have a few options. One would be to save the money that
they did not pay in Social Security taxes and either invest it in real estate
and municipal bonds or place it in a savings account. For the person
making an average of $20,000 a year for forty years and takes 6 percent
out of his paycheck to place in a savings account at 5 percent interest,
he would certainly have enough money when he turns 65 on which to
retire. This would also give banks more money in which to give loans to
people who wish to build a home or buy a car, thus keeping interest rates
down.
The reduced costs to employers could also enable them to place more
money into retirement benefits for employees. This way employees
would have their income supplemented by not only their own savings,
but also the retirement benefits they will receive from their employers
after they reach 65 years of age.
Social Security is a dead end policy, and until government realizes
this, we will go on forever paying taxes for a program that costs as much
to administer as it does to pay today's aged a minimal sum at best. If
government is allowed to continue raising taxes to support dying pro-grams,
then we are sure to run into more pressing problems than exist
today.
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U.S. Congressman Donald Fraser (5th District) spoke before a chapel audience last
Tuesday about "Human Rights and American Foreign Policy." Fraser called for
American foreign policy to become more consistent among countries who have been
exploiting the rights of individuals.
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`Fringed' benefits expected
from donated Persian rug
Reading the St. Paul Pioneer
Press in his hometown in Olivia,
Minn., 83-year-old H.J. Robertson
literally had the rug pulled out
from under him. Persians, he
learned, are scouring the country
for antique Oriental carpets to sell
back to Iran and meet demand in
Germany, according to an Associ-ated
Press story carried on
November 13.
Not that Robertson was sitting
on a Persian rug. But he did have
one stored in the attic. The rug
was purchased 60 years ago by
Mrs. Robertson's mother, who
kept it as a showpiece in her farm-house
sitting room. Following her
death, the Robertsons set the rug
aside and deferred a decision as
to what to do with it. Until they
read the Sunday paper, that is.
"There are 200 to 300 Persians
on the road day and night in every
corner of the U.S. looking • for
these rugs in Oshkosh or the corn
fields in Kansas." (How about
western Minnesota, Robertson
thought.)
"Dealers cite examples of rugs
that sold for $2,500 in 1960 fet-ching
$30,000 today." And he read
how carpets 50 to 100 years old
were being purchased for national
museums and collectors.
But even if the rug were sold for
a timely sum, the Robertsons
would not be interested in having
the money for themselves. They
had found greater satisfaction by
investing in youth through Bethel
College and Seminary. So why not
use the rug for this purpose too,
Robertson thought, and let Bethel
sell it for whatever it was worth?
Several days later when
Bethel's director of deferred giv-ing,
Bud Howard, stopped in Olivia
to see the Robertsons, he received
an unexpected greeting:
"Am I glad you are here,"
Robertson said. "There's
Mavis Peterson, member of the
Student Minnesota Education As-sociation
at Bethel College, will
attend the annual national con-vention
of the Student National
Education Association (SNEA) in
Philadelphia, Pa., January 18-21.
Mavis will act as a voting dele-gate
to the official legislative
body of the association. This
governing body, representing
members from 43 states, will
adopt SNEA's goals and deter-mine
the association's programs
for 1978-79.
"The 1978 SNEA Convention
provides an opportunity for each
member to witness SNEA build a
foundation for its continuous pro-gress
in helping all members
become more effective teachers,"
explained Larry Bateman, presi-dent
of the 50,000-member organ-ization
and presiding officer at
the business meeting.
"In addition," the SNEA Presi-dent
pointed out, "this annual
event gives all participants a
chance to enrich their profes-something
we want to talk to you
about."
Howard brought the fringed Per-sian
rug—thought to be a Sarouk
and woven in shades of Burgundy,
royal blue and gold—back to
Bethel in the trunk of his car.
Together with Harvey DeVries,
vice president for public affairs,
they will explore the potential
markets for its sale.
Whether the rug makes it back
to Iran or meets a demand
elsewhere in the world, Robertson
feels satisfied that he made the
right investment. And Bethel, in
turn, is grateful not only for such a
generous benefactor but also for
the St. Paul Sunday newspaper.
WAR declared
disappointing
by freshmen
by Arlan Swanson
"I didn't think WAR was worth
$300," said freshman Dave
Briscoe, of his Writing and
Research class. Most freshmen
seem to agree with his con-clusion.
On a scale of one to ten (ten be-ing
high score), WAR averaged a
4.5 rating by the ten freshmen in-terviewed.
They didn't do enough
teaching," said Becky Dye. "They
gave assignments but didn't give
enough instruction." Becky felt
that the idea of a writing class for
freshmen was good, though she
rated the class a four.
Jon Fredrickson said, "To me it
was a review of what I already
learned in high school." He graded
WAR a three.
"I liked the class because I got
practice writing," said Patty
Ferch. "It gave me good back-ground
material." Patty thought
sional development by attending
workshops on current issues af-fecting
education, such as the re-cently
implemented 'Education
for All Handicapped Act,' multi-cultural
education and disci-pline."
Further, declared SNEA Vice
President Bryan Gurule, "The
presence of a member at the
once-a-year SNEA policy-making
meeting demonstrates his or her
dedication to the education pre-profession."
the required book, "My Name is
Asher Lev," was "profound."
"If I had to do it all over again,"
said Patty, who assigned a five
rating to the class, "I would want
Passages wins
out in survey
by Thangi Chhangte
The Student Senate conducted
a survey last fall to determine the
student body's interest in Bethel's
two publications: the Spire and
Passages. Only 373 responses
were returned.
Overall, 57 percent of the
responses preferred Passages
over Spire. The results of the
survey are posted on the Student
Senate bulletin board.
The survey was taken to deter-mine
whether Spire should be re-vived
next year. According to the
results, the yearbook will finally
be scrapped in favor of Passa-ges,
similar to this year's, avail-able
in May.
The Communications Board of
the Student Senate originally con-ducted
the survey. They will pre-sent
a budget for Passages and
the Roster to the Senate.
Al Steier, who is on the Corn-munications
Board, said he and
his colleagues were disappointed
in the number of responses they
received.
"It's the students' responsibili-ty
to respond because it's their
money we're dealing with," he ad-ded.
He said he hopes for a more
favorable response next year.
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more writing practice and less
grammar."
Sherry Honeywell liked the
small group idea and said that
some guest lecturers were good.
But, rating the class a five, she
said, "I think it was a big waste, I
really do."
One student, who asked not to
be named, rated the class a five.
She said that "nobody learned
anything from the large group ses-sions."
She explained that they were
given a test at the beginning of the
course to assess what areas each
student needed help in, but they
were never told where they lacked,
and never specifically helped with
their weak areas.
"It was irrelevant to what I
needed," said another freshman.
Rating WAR a 2.5, he said, "The
subject matter wasn't practical for
me, for instance, the sixth-grade-level
section on how to use a card
catalog."
Rating the class a seven, Todd
Benson said that he was glad he
took the class. "It taught me prac-tical
writing skills," he said.
Nancy Conn, who gave the class
a resounding eight rating said, "I
thought it was really a good
course. It was worthwhile."
The lowest grade, a two, was
given by Dave Terpstra. He said
WAR "improved the one weakness
I had, punctuation."
Calling the class a waste of
$300, he said, "The purpose of
WAR should not be to fill in the in-adequacies
of high school learn-ing
but rather it should introduce
the student to what liberal arts is
all about."
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by Dan Erickson
Two new dorms will probably be the only ones located on the site near the Bremer
Field, due to the pending Northwestern-Arden Hills dispute. Originally five dorms
were to be built here. See story on page 1.
Variety moves students to, from Bethel
The rap against the Clarion is that it does not do enough investigative
reporting. I mean, there are not a lot of Woodward and Bernstein types
sneaking around. The Clarion tries to research its stories well and pre-sent
the facts clearly, but for some readers that isn't enough. In the in-terest
of giving the reader what he wants, I've given this investigative
reporting business some thought. I worked at getting an informant with
high administrative connections. After nurturing the relationship with a
possible source for several months I got a call. He had something con-fidential
to tell me, and I was to meet him the next day at one, out in the
grassy part of the circle parking lot.
He was already there when I arrived, inconspicuously dressed in a
trench coat and sunglasses.
"Things are really beginning to heat up in the administration," he said.
"Why, what do you mean," I coyly inquired, not wanting to push him
too far.
He peered at me intently over the lenses of his sunglasses. "Who do
you think is the Dean of Bethel College?"
"Why, Dean Brushaber of course."
"Wrong."
"What are you talking about," I asked. "I see his name all the time on
stationery."
"George Brushaber died in a single engine plane crash in 1975."
"You're crazy!"
"Let me ask you this: Have you ever seen Dean Brushaber?"
I was flabbergasted. Of course like everyone else I had never really
seen the Dean. I had been conditioned into believing that it was because
of his busy schedule and his reclusive manner. Now I wasn't so sure. Did
the Dean really exist, and if so, had anyone ever seen him?
"How?...Where?..." My questions began to tumble out.
"That's all I can tell you," said my secretive friend. "One last clue:
Brushaber spelled sideways is `Shabruber.' Now it is all up to you." Then
he was gone.
Now it was up to me. That phrase kept ringing in my ears. What did I
know about investigative reporting. I'm a columnist. I've never even
taken News and Feature Writing. But my duty was clear.
I worked several days on the case without result. I followed the
`Shabruber' lead by checking the cities' yellow pages, without success.
Finally I decided to go up to the Dean's office and confront them with
what I knew; hardly anything.
I strolled into the office of the Dean on Thursday. The secretary look-ed
up. "May I help you?"
I looked over at the door that said George Brushaber, College Dean. I
smirked. Who did they think they were kidding? I sat down on the edge
of the secretary's desk. She was beginning to get a little uneasy.
"What if I told you that I knew that the real Dean died in a plane crash
two and a half years ago, and that everyone's covering up to save costs
in changing the stationery, and that the Dean's job is being done by a
computer in Des Moines, Iowa whose print out code word is
`Shabruber'."
The secretary had this hurt look on her face like I'd just told a joke
that she didn't get. Now she looked scared. "Are you here to steal my
typewriter or something?" she asked.
The office door opened slightly. "Linda, would you come in here a
second."
"Yes, Dean Brushaber." She stared at me as she crossed the room,
then paused. "All I ask is that you not be here when I get back." Then
she disappeared into the suddenly real Dean's office.
When I left that office and closed the door I also closed my in-vestigative
reporting career.
by Lisa Mills
There are new bodies roaming
the Bethel halls again this inter-im.
With 1400 students here,
there are about 400 fewer stu-dents
than first semester.
The reasons for the smaller
number during interim are the
same every year: staying home to
work, staying home not to work,
not needing the interim credit,
and even going elsewhere to
school during January.
The University of Min-nesota
is recruiting
volunteers who have had
one heart attack to par-ticipate
in a national
cholesterol study.
The National Heart and
Lung Institute study is be-ing
conducted at three
medical centers, including
the University, to determine
whether lowering blood
cholesterol levels will help
prevent heart attacks. A
University physician ex-plained
that the study
needs 1,000 men and
women as participants.
They should have had one
heart attack during the last
three years, be between 30
and 60 years of age, free of
diabetes and high blood
pressure, and not be greatly
overweight. This study is in
cooperation with practicing
physicians.
For further information,
volunteers may call the
University at (612) 376-4494,
collect.
Ed. note: In its continuing
effort to better serve the
Bethel community, the
Clarion attempts to print
public service an-nouncements
of relevance
to the students. The above
news release from the U of
M is printed in Its entirety.
This year, 36 Bethel students
went to other schools for interim
on the exchange program. Bethel
sent students to Calvin, St.
Catherines, Augustana, St. Olaf,
Augsburg, Macalester, and
Greenview to name a few.
There were also 36 students
from colleges such as Westmont,
Luther, Jamestown (North Dakota)
and Taylor (Indiana) regis-tered
at Bethel.
Gretchen Robinson, in charge
of new students in the Registrar's
office, stated "Most students
come for the fun of it, and are
visiting friends—it was seldom
because of a course offering."
There are also 20 other new
students here for interim, most
from this area. Of the 56 new stu-dents,
only 20 will continue at
Former Bethel
president
dies Dec. 30
Dr. Henry C. Wingblade,
president-emeritus of Bethel Col-lege
and Seminary died December
30 in St. Paul at the age of 94.
Born on a farm near Waterville,
Kansas on December 16, 1883,
Wingblade was encouraged by his
older brother to pursue an
academic education. After gradua-tion
from Washburn College in
1910, he began teaching English
at Bethel Academy and later com-pleted
a master's program at the
University of Minnesota.
In 1941 he became the second
president of Bethel College and
Seminary, serving until 1954, for a
total of 44 years' association with
Bethel.
During his administration the
four-year liberal arts program was
inaugurated, entrance require-ments
for the seminary were up-graded
to the bachelor's degree
level, college enrollment increas-ed
from 123 to 500, the seminary
from 52 to 174, and five buildings
added to the campus.
Bethel next semester.
This is one old Bethel student
who enjoys seeing the new faces.
They seem to bring a new fresh-ness
to what otherwise could be
termed, "the middle of the year
blues."
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Wednesday-Pastor Spickel-mier,
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BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH
720 13th Avenue South
Minneapolis
338-7653
(Contact Charlie Cosgrove 636-5242)
Bus Leaves: Services:
New Campus 9:05 9:45 Bible Study
F.T. 9:10 11:00 Worship
Old Campus 9:20 7:00 Evening Challenge
This trail, now used by cross-country skiers, may become a nature or jogging path.
Coordination Plus
Interim often acts as a lull in a stormy, busy school year. We hope
this interim will be an enjoyable learning experience for .you, and
provide you with the opportunity to have more relaxation and fun.
We have taken advantage of the "lull" and informal atmosphere
interim provides to bring more casual, "just for kicks" type activities
that we hope you'll like!
One concern of ours, however, is all the new faces walking around
looking a little lonely, a little lost, and a little like "help, I need a
friend." Most of us have fewer responsibilities and a greater amount of
free time this month...so let's all make an effort to look out for each
other. It's true that in order to have a friend you have to be one, but
some of us just need a little encouragement.
Here's what's up for the next couple of weeks:
1/14 Stomp and Romp! A fun filled game night with tug of war,
mattress races and lots more.
1/17 Our annual winter picnic with cheese filled hot dogs
wrapped in bacon and lots of other good food. "The Hiding Place" will be
shown after.
1/20 Pull out your cowboy hat and come to the Mike Monroe and
Scott Warren concert. $1.50.
Should be a great month!
Cynthia and Scott
Arboretum, trails proposed for Bethel
by Steve Erickson
A proposal, which would pro-vide
for a nature trail and an ar-boretum,
is under consideration
by the Bethel Site Committee.
Devised by Gregg Johnson,
assistant professor of biology, the
proposal is divided into three sec-tions.
The first calls for posting of
signs to identify natural areas on
campus. The second section deals
with the establishment of a perma-nent
nature trail.
The last phase of the project
will be the development of an ar-boretum
(a library of plants).
Section one has already been
approved by the site committee.
The ten areas of concern are the
lake, cottonwood peat bog, cattail
swamp, prairie pothole, virgin
prairie, intermittent stream, inter-mittent
pond, arboretum,deci-duous
woods, and oak savanna.
Aside from the sign posting,
maintenance will be told of each
area's purpose..
This is to assure that the virgin
prairie will not be mowed or the
cattail swamp filled. The signs to
identify these natural areas will
cost approximately $500.
January picnic
promises fire
menu, warmth
by Debbie Bunger
In the middle of the coldest
month of the year, the fourth
annual All-You Can Eat Winter
Picnic will be held for students at
Bethel. The movie "The Hiding
Place," will be shown in the gym
at 8 p.m., after the picnic.
The picnic will be held Tues-day,
Jan. 17, at 5 p.m., at the foot
of Mt. Zion. The theme for the
picnic is: "Think Warm." To help
students along, two large bonfires
will be burning to ward off the
usual below zero temperatures.
Emphasizing "Think Warm,"
the food service has planned a
menu of hot dogs wrapped in
cheese and bacon ready to be
cooked over an open fire, hot
beans, hot German potato salad,
potato salad topped with real
frost, marshmallows to be toast-ed,
hot cider and hot chocolate.
Popularity of the picnic has in-creased
since the first year.
About 24 people attended the first
picnic, 28 people attended the
Johnson said, "I'm not as con-cerned
about the nature trail; my
main input was to preserve these
native areas. Bethel is located on
DuPont's old land. It was used for
storing dynamite. Most of the
other land in this area was used
for farming or grazing. Much of
Bethel's land has been un-disturbed."
Sections two and three are still
being examined by the site com-mittee.
It seems to be favoring a
nature trail instead of a combined
jogging-nature trail.
Although they overlap in areas,
second and 300 attended last
year's. A minimum of 300 people
are expected this year.
Concerning the weather,
Wayne Erickson, co-director of
the food service, stated, "It's
beautiful! Traditionally the wea-ther
has always been nice on the
evening of the picnic." With a
smile, he added, "It has never
been below 20 degrees below
zero."
A sign-up sheet will be posted
before the picnic to get an
estimate of the number of people
planning to attend the picnic. The
picnic is sponsored by the food
service and Campus Coordina-tor's
office.
the two trails run different
courses.
The arboretum would be located
between the college and the
seminary along highway 51.
Expenses in establishing a per-manent
nature trail and arboretum
are expected to run
$12,700-$19,700, depending on
whether wood chips or asphalt are
used.
Other expenses will be
transplanting and labeling trees,
and for the research and printing
of the pamphlet.
Funding for the nature trail-arboretum
might come from a
community or private grant. The
Student Senate has rejected a pro-posal
that would provide $500 for
the project.
The nature trail and arboretum
would probably be used more by
people in the surrounding areas
than by Bethel students. A pam-phlet
would be printed and dis-tributed
to the neighboring com-munity.
Tours could also be scheduled
through public relations. These
tours will provide exposure of the
Bethel campus to high school
students.
Jon Berry, a member of both the
site committee and Student
Senate thinks a running trail is
more important. "I agree that
we're very lucky with what we have
and we should share, but the opi-nion
that I get is that most
students would much rather see a
running trail."
He continued, "After a couple of
times, you've seen everything in a
nature trail. A jogging trail could
be used more often. People are
sick of running on the roads."
But regardless of what kind of
trail is constructed, Johnson
urges conservation of natural
areas. "If the school - decides to
put a parking lot or a stadium or
something else in, I hope they will
consider alternative places and
avoid the native areas.," he said.
History buff
explores early
coffee shops
by Teferi Fufa
Suppose you are passing the
coffee-shop on your way to the
library and, "just for the fun of it",
you decide to compare the
number of people in each place.
Would you find more people in
the library or in the coffee shop?
You have five years worth of
Spire before you. As you skim
them looking for some familiar
faces, you see pictures of
students sleeping, at least one in
every copy!
Where would you say the photo-grapher
went for his candid shots?
Of course the answer is, in both
cases, the library! After all, we go
to the coffee shop to stay awake
and back to the library to study.
It wasn't always that way,
though. There is more to the
coffee shop tradition than just
keeping people awake.
It is not a mere alternative to the
uneasy, silent and intellectual at-mosphere
of the Learning Re-source
Center (LRC), either. His-torically
it is referred to as a cof-fee
house, a coffee room, or a
cafe, and more recently, especially
on college campuses, coffee shop
or student center is the name.
Call it what you will, it is the
place to which one gravitates for a
cup of coffee.
Coffee house tradition comes to
us from Europe where its popu-larity
was established as early as
the beginning of the 17th century.
In those days common
customers of the coffee houses
were historians, poets, orators, ar-tists
and actors. There was
nothing like the 15-minute coffee
break that we know today, as we
relax our muscles and refresh our
minds before resuming our work.
No, for those people it was an
informal scholastic venture; they
gathered for lively discussions,
continued on page 6
Page 5
Bethelites socialize in favorite spot, descendants of early European coffeehouse patrons.
Apartheid, black plight
studied at local theatre
Bohne in world premier
by Holly Schmiess
"Sizwe Banzi is Dead," and
"The Island," two anti-apartheid
plays now on at Theatre in the
Round, together run a marathon
length of three and one quarter
hours. Due to circumstances be-yond
my better judgment, I could
stay for only "Sizwe...."
The play takes place in South
Africa, and examines the modern
day traumas of being a black man
in a white society. Styles, a man
with a resilient spirit, opens his
own photography studio rather
than rot in the work-a-day grind
of the white man's assembly line.
He tells his audience all about
that transition in an engaging
monologue that makes you laugh,
sigh, and understand.
Warren C. Bowles, playing
Styles, acted too arduously,
though, in this part', and made us
feel obligated to respond.
Into the photographer's studio
walks a man who has his own
story, Sizwe Banzi. He too is a
black man trying to start a new
life, in another South African city.
Seeking the advice of his
friend, Buntu (also played by
Bowles), Sizwe learns the futility
of trying to legally revise the
passbook to which his life is
bound. They find a dead man in
an alley and, persuaded by Bun-tu,
the realist, Sizwe swaps pass-books.
To put food on the table for his
family, Sizwe gives up his hon-ored
tribal name and heritage for
those of a dead man. The story
comes full circle as Sizwe goes to
the photography studio to have a
photo of his 'new' self taken to
send to his wife.
The script, written by two black
and one white South African,
could have had several demises:
tedious cynicism, esoteric jargon,
extremely provincial appeal, or
heavy-handed statement. These
were beautifully avoided.
Statement and artistic expres-sion
were mutually enhanced.
The characters were not merely
illustrative puppets.
I wish Buntu and Styles had
been played by two different ac-tors.
Bowles did an admirable job
of differentiating the characters,
but that became the predominant
thought in my mind—that he was
doing a good job. Both characters
were fully-developed and treated
quite independently in the story
and script. The double-casting
was unwarranted and distracting
when the play was so sparsely
populated to begin with.
With no required props or set,
long monologue sequences, and
unique time-lapse progression,
the directing challenge was a big
one. Philip Blackwell used light-ing,
particularly spots, to achieve
the intertwining effect of three
men's lives, and parenthetical
events within a larger story.
"Sizwe Banzi is Dead" not only
reveals the plight of the South
African black, but gives names
and faces to everyone restricted
to a man-made system. Empathy
was uniquely expressed (quite
verbally at times), especially by
the black members of the opening
night audience.
I'd like to go back and see "The
Island." Let that speak for itself.
continued from page 5
talked, listened, debated, and, of
course, drank coffee.
Those early London coffee
houses became known as "Penny
Universities".
The popularity of the coffee
house and its impact on socio-political
life of the people is not
limited to England.
In France, coffee houses were
places of origin for revolutionary
thoughts, some of which climaxed
in the execution of the "French
Revolution".
Familiar names like Voltaire,
Rousseau, Fontenelle, Victor
Hugo and many other noted
French scholars appear on the list
of those who frequented coffee
houses.
Of course the rulers felt uneasy
about this tradition, and according
to the literature, Frederick William
I of Prussia, Charles II of England,
and Louise XIV of France did their
best, individually, to suppress the
coffee house.
Each of these kings at one time
in his reign outlawed the coffee
house and subjected the offender
to severe penalties.
But the laws were very shortliv-ed
and unsuccessful since they
only accomplished the division of
the population into two
categories: law enforcers and law
breakers!
The tradition which had a
tremendous impact on European
social and political life can be con-tinued
here at Bethel in the coffee
shop.
Today when concerns about
environment and the various
aspects of world problems provide
us with vital topics for discussion,
there is no reason why we should
not make use of this great school
of conversation.
So, don't be surprised if you
find the coffee shop busier than
you expected it to be. It may not
be a "Penny University" but it
does offer conversation, coffee by
the cup and a refill—all for only fif-teen
cents!
by Marlene Triggs
A Bethel student performing in
a theatre production outside of
Bethel is not unusual. But when
the production is a world premier,
that is an event.
Bruce Bohne, a senior theatre
major, will be performing in a
musical based on George Bernard
Shaw's play, "The Devil's Dis-ciple,"
at the Chimera Theatre.
The performance dates are Jan.
27-March 5.
"The Devil's Disciple" is a
play that takes place in a Puritan
community in America. The
young man who is called the
devil's disciple warrants this title
because of such un-Puritan ac-tions
as wrestling on Sunday.
When the British army occu-pies
the city, the devil's disciple's
identity is mistaken for that of the
Puritan minister. He is arrested
and destined to be hung, as an
example to the rest of the commu-nity.
This situation and the capers
THESPIANS
Single free tickets will be
available occasionally to
perceptive students, pre-ferably
with theatre experi-ence,
who will review plays
for THE CLARION. Stimu-lating
for you, beneficial for
us and our readers. If
you're interested in critiqu-ing
some Twin Cities pro-ductions
between now and
May, let me know soon.
Thanks.
Holly Schmiess
P.O. 1556
Phone 6214
that follow supply perfect materi-al
for the musical.
Bruce's character is a sergeant
of the British army. It is a part that
he is enjoying thoroughly. Bruce
describes the sergeant as a "gruf-fy,
lovable Cockney. He is kind of a
caricature, but at the same time he
is real."
"The thing I am most excited
about is the encouragement I get
from the writer and the director,"
said Bohne. "It makes me want to
work and give to them. Because
of this, I am really being
stretched as an actor. I am
learning that I have to give them
everything and the director will
hold me back if he thinks I am
giving too much."
The exciting thing is that the
director, Jack Edleman, and the
rewriter, Warren Frost, have not
been holding him back. Instead,
they are so pleased with the
character that Bruce is creating
that they have added a scene
featuring him.
"The director is just super,"
said Bruce. "He is alive, creative,
and bursting with energy."
"Everybody in the cast is get-ting
to be good friends," related
Bohne. "There is a spirit of fun in
every rehearsal. It is exhausting
work but it is wonderful."
"This is a special world pre-mier,"
Bruce explains, "If it is
good and the idea is solid, this
could turn out to be a `My Fair
Lady' type of thing."
There is no doubt in Bruce's
mind about the success of the
show. "I'm sure it is going to be a
success. In fact, I am convinced of
it."
Events Calendar
January 13, Friday
Women's basketball with St. Mary's, home, 6:30 p.m.
January 14, Saturday
All-day wrestling invitational at Concordia
Men's basketball with St. John's, away, 7:30 p.m.
Stomp and Romp (Game night), gym, 8 p.m.
January 16, Monday
Auditions for "All My Sons," "You're a Good Man...," FA 108,
FA 312, 7 p.m.
January 17, Tuesday
Winter Picnic, 5 p.m., "The Hiding Place," gym, 8 p.m.
Auditions for "All My Sons," "You're a Good Man...," FA 108,
FA 312, 7 p.m.
Women's basketball with Concordia, away, 7 p.m.
January 18, Wednesday
Men's basketball with Augsburg, away, 6:30 p.m.
**The Events Calendar will be a regular feature of THE
CLARION from now on. If your organization wants to post
notice of an activity, submit to P.O. 91 by 6 p.m. the Sunday
before publication.
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9. Dugout:
a. where the prisoner
dug to escape
b. where the player
sleeps
c. a place to store
baseball players
d. what the dentist did
to your cavity
10. Ball diamond:
a. rounded jewel in a
wedding ring
b. field that baseball is
played on
c. a new game from
Milton Bradley
d. a ball that costs a
dime in Jersey
11. Change on the fly:
a. switch players while
play continues on
the ice
b. you are late for school
and you dress in
the car
c. you have clothes to
fit a fly
d. assorted coins taped
to a zipper
Curt Oslin looks for the open man in Wednesday's game
against St. Olaf.
Shirley Erickson is more
than a special student
At an age when some women
might be baking cookies for their
grandchildren away at college,
Mrs. Shirley Erickson is eating
them with her classmates in the
dorm.
Continuing her education at
Bethel is the fulfillment of a dream
for this vigorous widow who
recently was administrator at the
Park Point Manor Nursing Home in
Duluth. That dream started 25
years ago when she first heard
about Bethel through her church,
and continued as she encouraged
Sunday School youth to apply for
admission.
"You're always pushing Bethel
for others," a friend commented,
"have you ever thought of going
there yourself?" After her husband
died unexpectedly a year ago, Mrs.
Erickson thought, why not?
This fall she enrolled as a
special student, working toward a
degree to add to her previous R.N.
program, and decided to live in Bo-dien
Residence with 150 other col-legians.
"I wanted to be in the middle of
everything," she commented. "I
didn't want to be isolated."
Out of such motivation she
joins the college crowd in powder
puff football, late-nighters at
Country Kitchen or the Rosedale
roller rink, and singing with the
Women's Ensemble.
She even mustered up enough
courage to ask a professor to Nik
Dag.
Eating with the students in the
campus dining hall is another
pastime. "You could say I'm tak-ing
a sabbatical leave from house-work,"
she quips, "but actually I'm
too lazy to fix my own meals while
going to school."
As far as relations with her
classmates and teachers are con-cerned,
Mrs. Erickson hasn't
received any preferential treat-ment.
"When we heard that you were
coming to live in the dorm," one of
the residents told her, "we
thought you would be a stodgy old
bookworm. But we've found that
you're just one of us."
When it comes to grading, Mrs .
Aye yust got a letter from my
brother in der old country. Aye can
keep it only two days longer as it
say "return in five days." Yimminy
whiz he has made it so close to the
paper that aye can read it hardly.
Dear broder David,
De reason aye didn't rite sooner
is because ve moved from vere ve
ver to ver ve are now. Aye schol
tell you the sad news. Your Uncle
Obert, who you loved so good is
dead. He died very sudden after
being sick about six months. Hope
this letter finds you the same. Ve
did not know the cause for his
death but he yust lay down and der
vind leaked out of him.
Your Aunt Pauline is been dead
too. She was mopping floor ven
she slipped and cracked her bean
on the floor. De doctor giv up all
Erickson lamented that she got a
D in a recent quiz on Romans.
"It's a terrible ego blow for me
not to get an A," she said. "After
that first test, I went over to the
school nurse and cried a bit. But
she poured me a cup of hot tea
and that helped. Later some
beautiful person put a note in my
post office box with some verses
of encouragement." She has since
used these to cheer others when
they get down.
While she doesn't yet know the
purpose of her college experience,
Mrs. Erickson confidently trusts
her future with God. "Up until a
few weeks ago I seemed to be drif-ting
without any particular goal.
But now I feel that being in college
is definitely a part of God's plan
for my life and there's a rudder to
my sailboat after all!"
by Jon Fredrickson
Some of you sports fans
may have gone to games
where the guy next to you is
using words that you have
never heard before.
For people who might
want to find out what this
guy was saying, the follow-ing
sports quiz might be of
some help.
1. Dribble:
a. the stuff that rolls
down your chin
b. bouncing a ball
c. a slow rain
d. all of the above
2. Jock:
a. the French guy who
lives downstairs
b. man of all sports
c. a monkey
d. rider of a horse in
in a race
3. Check:
a. smashing the oppos-sing
player into the
boards
b. what you use to bribe
the ref with
c. wheat, rice, or corn
hope yen she died.
Our old friend John Jacobson
was held up and killed for his
money. He was lucky as he left all
his money home so all he lost was
his life.
Ole Stenhagen fell in de river
and vas drowned. Same thing hap-pened
to him last summer.
Ve all got the mumps and are
having a svell time.
Aye haf no more to say, aye will
close. If you don't get this letter
write and tell me at once and aye
vill send you anoder one.
P.S. Aye was going to send you
that five dollars aye owe you, but
aye had already sealed up this let-ter
and mailed it before I thot of
the $5.
Your loving broder,
cereal
d. red marks on a term
paper
4. Score:
a. what all athletes wish
they could do
b. point total at the end
of the game
c. twenty
5. Backboard:
a. a splint tied to
your back
b. what the basketball
hoop hangs from
c. flip-side of the front
d. how you felt in the
last row of class
yesterday
6. Ball:
a. a dance up the street
b. what the batter tries
to hit
c. to cry
d. hairless head
7. Out of bounds:
a. women's dorm for men
b. men's dorm for women
c. outside of the court
d. a disco for Bethel
students
e. no more detergent
8. Misconduct penalty:
a. being sent to your
room, with no dinner
by your R.A.
b. a fine assessed for
being in the wrong
sex's room
c. no kiss after Nik Dag
d. what a player in
hockey gets
e. your face gets slapped
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periods but couldn't put The puck
in."
The hockey club is not a varsity
team. It raises its own funds.
The Student Senate contributed
$500 to the club and a number of
businessmen have given money.
Players have also sold buttons to
raise funds.
High points in the season will
be upcoming games against the
Augsburg and Gustavus junior var-sities.
The season ends in early
March.
Pete's letter to his brother
Sports quiz to examine athletic term knowledge
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Gail Anderson, Cindy Martin and Lori Hallquist (left to
right) look on as one Bethel cager attempts to score.
First MIAC win for Bethel
in thriller at Concordia
"Sugar Ray" Miller launches a jumper against St. Olaf
by Greg Kuntz
The Bethel men's basketball
team evened their record at 1-1 in
the M.I.A.C. by edging Concor-dia
(Moorhead) 63-62 last Satur-day
night. Ray Miller's basket
with :18 left proved to be the win-ning
margin for the Royals when
Concordia's Craig Flaagen, who
scored 19 points in the game,
failed on a shot from the corner as
time ran out.
Bethel led by six . at the half,
and by 12 at one time. Concordia
had the lead only once, when they
led by a point with about a minute
to play.
Defensively, the Royals were
excellent despite four fouls each
on Scott Wilson, Miller and Curt
Oslin. The Royals outrebounded
Concordia, with Wilson control-ling
the boards often. Todd
Chapman fouled out of the game
in the second half.
Bethel committed only 11 turn-overs
and hit 15 of 20 free throws
compared to 12 of 23 by the hosts.
"They didn't expect anything
from us. We sneaked up on them
and our defense was excellent,"
said Coach Jim Bragg.
Sophomore Dave Blanchard,
who now has a 18.5 point per
game average, scored 23 against
Concordia.
While almost everyone was
racking their brains during finals
week, the Royals racked up two
non-conference victories. Their
first was at Concordia (St. Paul),
which they won 79-65, and then a
nip-and-tuck 71-68 win over River
Falls at home.
Blanchard had his two highest
scoring performances so far with
27 against Concordia and 24
against River Falls. The Royals
converted 21 of 26 free throws in
the River Falls game.
The Royals outlasted a bigger
and more physical River Falls
team and poor officiating. Bethel
made a transition against a
matched zone which forced turn-overs
and key steals by Curt Oslin
and Tom Koenigsberg. This pro-vided
some quick baskets in the
last two minutes of the game for a
dramatic finish.
"Our offense played patient
and Blanchard got the good
shots," said Bragg.
The Royals played an atypical
game and lost their first M.I.A.C.
performance to Gustavus Adol-phus
83-56 last week. Scott Wil-son
scored 18 points in the losing
effort.
"Almost everyone was off. Our
heads weren't there," explained
Bragg. "We're an exciting team
and tough for anyone in the
league when we're all together on
a given night."
The Royals hit the road again
tomorrow night for M.I.A.C. ac-tion
when they face St. John's at
7:30 p.m. and face Hamline next
Wednesday night at 7:30. They
return home against Augsburg at
7:30 p.m. next Friday and St.
Mary's on Jan. 28th.
Women's basketball team uses new
defense to rout Gusties, Parkside
by Carol Madison
Some extra practice, healed in-juries
and a new defense has given
the Bethel women's basketball
team a good start after the Christ-mas
break.
Bethel came off five extra days
of practice before classes to
soundly defeat Gustavus 50-33
and the University of Wisconsin-
Parkside 51-35.
The use of a new 1-3-1 defense
was the key to the win over Gus-tavus.
"We're excited to try the new
defense at home," said Coach
Kathy Nevins. "It's one of the bags
by Steve Erickson
The Bethel hockey club split
two games last weekend, losing to
Rochester 11-6 Friday, before
trouncing the Iowa State junior
varsity 12-1 Saturday night.
The loss to Rochester was only
the team's second all season
against five wins.
"It was a down night," said Dr.
Thomas Correll, the club's faculty
representative. "We didn't play a
very together game Friday."
Scoring goals for Bethel were
Fred Hage with two, and John
Selvog, Kim Tramm, Mark Barton,
and Greg Sutton with one apiece.
Hage and Tramm are newcomers
who were added to the team at the
beginning of interim. Bethel out-shot
Rochester 32-29.
Led by Hage's three goals,
Bethel turned things around and
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of tricks we'll use when we play
teams Bethel has lost to in the
past."
Everyone played and con-tributed
in the Gustavus game,
which was the best Bethel has
played this year. Turnovers were
fewer than any other game, and a
53 percent field goal shooting
percentage was a big factor in the
win.
Cindy Ramm was high scorer
with 16 points.
The University of Wisconsin-
Parkside game saw some dis-jointed
play, but Bethel won with
dominating inside play. Bethel had
smothered a weak Iowa State
team Saturday. It was never close,
with the Royals taking control
from the outset.
Bethel outshot the visiting
Cyclones 46-11. Bethel goalies
George Fraser and Bob Aldrich
faced few serious scoring threats.
Bethel started the blitz with
three goals in less than a minute
early in the first period.
At three minutes, Mike Kiel flip-ped
in a well-placed shot. Less
than one-half minute later, Sutton
carried the puck up ice and fired it
in the short side to make 2-0.
Selvog scored a shorthanded goal
28 seconds later after putting a
nice move on the goalie.
Tom Correll was credited with
the next score when his centering
pass bounced off an Iowa State
player into the net. At 14 minutes,
Correll was tripped as he skated in
more height, and consequently
was able to block out well on the
boards.
Cindy Ramm was again high
scorer with 17 points, and Joann
Griffin and Cheryl Luiken shared
rebounding honors with 10 each.
Although hampered by injuries
at the start of the season, the
team is now close to full strength.
According to Coach Nevins, the
team has really improved with
each game.
"We've got a long way to go, but
we keep getting better," she said.
The Royals now have a 5-1
season record.
Wrestling
results
by Betty Logan
The Bethel wrestling team
participated in a takedown
tournament at St. John's
University last Saturday,
placing seventh out of nine
teams.
Highlighting the Bethel
showing was heavyweight
Gary Peterson who tied for
second place, scoring 15
takedowns in the tourna-ment.
Sophomore Lonnie
Holmgren won three mat-ches.
The next wrestling event
will be the North Country In-vitational
at Concordia-
Moorhead tomorrow, Jan.
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alone on goal. He was awarded a
penalty shot and converted it.
Goals by Hage and Tramm
finished the first period scoring
and made it 7-0.
An Iowa State winger ruined
Bethel's shutout on a blast into
the lower left corner early in the
second period. For Bethel, Greg
Correll stuffed in a rebound and
Sutton scored from the right point
to make it 9-1.
Tramm knocked in a rebound
three minutes into the third period
to put Bethel into double figures.
Hage completed the scoring with
two more goals, including a
tremendous blast from 20 feet out.
During the Christmas holidays,
Bethel played in a tournament at
Hibbing. Bethel beat Rochester in
the first game 2-1. In the final, Hib-bing,
the defending U.S. Nationals
champion overcame the Royals
4-0.
Dr. Correll said, "The guys were
feeling good after the game. We
shut them out the first and third
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30 goals in 2 games, hockey
club splits, moves to 5-2